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FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by H.J. Riddelsdell; G.W. Hedley; W.R. Price.
Stock no. 1804541
Published by The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club. Circa 1948. Very good condition.

Phanerograms, vascular cryptograms, charophyta. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Two fold-out maps to text, four maps in pocket inside back cover. B/w plates. clxxxii and 667 pages including index. Boards a little marked. Front hinge pulled. Some pencil annotation else a very nice copy.

BEN LAWERS AND ITS ALPINE FLOWERS
Written by Duncan Poore; Fraser Ross.
Stock no. 1601568
Published by The National Trust For Scotland. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. Covers grubby. Pages corner creased.

BRITISH PLANT LIFE (NN 10)
Written by W.B. Turrill.
Stock no. 1803108
Published by Bloomsbury Books. 1st thus 1989. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Originally published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. Cream boards. 315 pages. B/w illustrations of plants of specific interest. ISBN: 1870630831. Text block a little grubby, contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is a little grubby, has a few small nicks at edges and is lightly rubbed at corners.

A CENTURY OF FERNS
Written by William Jackson Hooker.
Stock no. 1203352
Published by William Pamplin. 1st 1854. Good condition.

Being figures with brief descriptions of 100 new, or rare, or imperfectly known species of ferns, from various parts of the world. Leather spine with gilt titles. 100 colour plates. Spine edges are worn. Corners are bumped. Front and rear joints cracked. Inscription in ink to title page. Some light foxing. Illustrations are bright. Title page detached.

WATER LILIES AND WATER PLANTS
Written by A. Niklitschek.
Stock no. 1802307
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1932. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth boards, white title to spine. Five original drawings by the author and 14 b/w plates. 135 pages including index. Corners worn, 0.5" loss to base of spine, slight loss to top of spine. Minor foxing to text block else contents clean.

FLORA DELLE ALPI
Written by Luigi Fenaroli.
Stock no. 822617
Published by Giunti. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

E Degli Altri Monti D'Italia. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Text in Italian. ISBN: 8809213750. Bookplate to verso of front free-endppaper. Minimal shelf wear to spine and corners. Dustwrapper slightly worn and very lightly browned to spine.

INDEX HERBARIORUM PART I THE HERBARIA OF THE WORLD
Written by J. Lanjouw; Frans A. Stafleu.
Stock no. 811773
Published by International Bureau For Plant Taxonomy And Nomenclature. 1959. Very good condition.

Light brown card wraps. 249 pages.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN ACACIAS
Written by J.D. Carr.
Stock no. 806283
Published by Conservation Press. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Green leatherette, gilt titles. Colour and b/w photos. B/w illustrations. Prelims and endpapers foxed. Boards marked at edges.

TREES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Written by Eve Palmer; Norah Pitman.
Stock no. 806267
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Three volumes. Large format. Colour and b/w photos. Covering all known indigenous species in the Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland. Wrappers of Vol 1 and 2 are covered in self-adhesive clear film. In the case of Volume 3 the clear film has been used to stick the wrapper to the book. Books are fine.

CROTALARIA IN AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR
Written by R.M. Polhill.
Stock no. 806269
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1982. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The rattlepods or klapper bossie of the legume genus Crotalaria are common throughout the tropics. This book provides a comprehensive review of the genus for the whole continent covering some 500 species. Large format. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9061910900. Wrapper covered in self-adhesive clear film.

TREES WOODS AND MAN (NN 32)
Written by Herbert L. Edlin.
Stock no. 598063
Published by Collins. 1966. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Green cloth. 27 colour plates. 30 b/w photographs. 2 line drawings. A New Naturalist publication. 2nd edition. Dustwrapper: price-cut.

THE FLORA OF LIVERPOOL
Written by Joseph Dickinson.
Stock no. 597717
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1851. Very good condition.

Purple cloth. Gilt title to spine. 166 pages. Bound with Supplement to the Flora of Liverpool 1855, 28 pages. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine and cover edges browned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Title page browned else contents very good.