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A GRASS ROPE TO CATCH A UNICORN: WENSLEYDALE WILD FLOWERS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
Written by Janet Rawlins. Illustrated by Janet Rawlins.
Stock no. 1824666
Published by Bain Falls Publishing. 1st 2014. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Janet Rawlins painted this collection of wild flowers as relaxation, whilst carryng out commissions for large scale machine-embroidered fabric collages. Janet Rawlins has observed and loved Wensleydale, with illustrations, landscape paintings and tose famous collages, all in her own inimitable style. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout, many watercolour. ISBN: 9780992866006. Signed by the artist 'for (the previous owner)'. Top & tail of spine slightly bumped, small knock to top edge of boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-creased, tiny tear (no loss to top edge of rear panel, previous bookseller's label to rear panel.

LICHENS (NN 86)
Written by Oliver Gilbert.
Stock no. 1824637
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 86. A look at how lichens have been used throughout history in medicines, dyes, food and perfumes. What they are and how they grow and reproduce. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0002200813. Text block lightly browned. Front pastedown is not stuck to board at spine edge (binding error). Some hinges pulled, binding tight. Pictorial dustwrapper is bright, slightly sunned to spine, lightly creased and a little grubby.

VANDAS THEIR BOTANY, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
Written by Martin R. Motes.
Stock no. 1324272
Published by Timber Press. 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 140 pages. Colour photographs by Alan L. Hoffman. ISBN: 0881923761. Spine bumped, corners rubbed. Small nick to lower edge of front cover. Small white address label to front pastedown else contents fine. Dustwrapper is bright, just a little edge creasing.

BRITISH PLANT LIFE (NN 10)
Written by W.B. Turrill.
Stock no. 1324227
Published by Collins. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series. Green cloth covers. 6 x 8.5 inches. 315 pages. Depicting colour illustrations of plants of specific interest. A most attractive and informative book. Spine slightly bumped. Fading to spine and front cover edges. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby to rear panel, slightly browned to spine with 0.5" loss at top.

THE STORY OF SOUTH YORKSHIRE BOTANY
Written by Graeme L.D. Coles.
Stock no. 1324184
Published by Yorkshire Naturalists' union. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. The flora Sheffieldiensis of Jonathan Salt ISBN: 9780956537812. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Contents fine. Neat barcode label to rear cover.

THE PLANT LIFE OF CHINA
Written by G.P. Chapman; Y.Z. Wang.
Stock no. 1324183
Published by Springer-Verlag. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Chinese plant life is estimated to include up to 30,000 species and extends from the Himalayan snow line across a diversity of habitats to the lush tropical south... 256 pages. Some colour photos, b/w diagrams/charts. ISBN: 3540422579. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. The book has been covered with clear laminate which is stuck down onto pastedowns. Neat barcode label to rear cover.

THE TOBACCO PLANT GENOME
Written by Nikolai V. Ivanov; Nicolas Sierro; Manuel C. Peitsch.
Stock no. 1324172
Published by Springer. 1st 2020. Very good condition.

Compendium of Plant Genomes series. Glazed boards. Graphs and charts. 263 pages. Printed by Books on Demand. ISBN: 9783030294922. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Neat barcode label to rear cover. Contents fine.

VANDAS THEIR BOTANY, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
Written by Martin R. Motes.
Stock no. 1324016
Published by Timber Press. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 140 pages. Colour photographs by Alan L. Hoffman. ISBN: 0881923761. Rubbing to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed/creased and has a neat barcode label to rear panel.

THE ORCHIDS OF IRELAND
Written by Tom Curtis; Robert Thompson.
Stock no. 1324013
Published by National Museums Northern Ireland. 1st 2009. Very good condition.

Green pictorial boards. Colour photos and illustrations, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900761504. Spine and corners quite heavily bumped. Inscription in ink to title-page. Contents otherwise fine. Neat barcode label to rear cover.

SEEDS HANDBOOK: BIOLOGY, PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND STORAGE
Written by B.B. Desai; P.M. Kotecha; D.K. Salunkhe.
Stock no. 2140443
Published by Marcel Dekker. Circa 1997. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0824700422. Ex-lib. with minimal markings; one ink stamp to front endpaper. 2nd printing. Some fading to spine. A few small marks to covers and outer page edges.

SEED DEVELOPMENT AND GERMINATION
Written by Jaime Kigel; Gad Galili.
Stock no. 2140442
Published by Marcel Dekker. Circa 1995. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed boards. 853 pages, including acknowledgements, references and index. ISBN: 0824792297. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine. Ex-lib. with minimal markings; one ink stamp to front endpaper. A few marks to outer page edges.

DOWNY MILDEW DISEASE OF CRUCIFERS: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT
Written by Govind Singh Saharan; Naresh Mehta; Prabhu Dayal Meena.
Stock no. 2140439
Published by Springer. Circa 2018. Nearly fine condition.

Green covers. The book reviews key developments in downy mildew research, including the disease, its distribution, symptomatology, host range, yield losses, and disease assessment and more... ISBN: 9789811074998. Still in original shrink wrap - UNREAD! A couple of corners are bumped.