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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.

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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.

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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
Written by C. Pierpoint Johnson. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby.
Stock no. 2140438
Published by John Van Voorst. Circa 1863. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth. All edges gilt. Gilt titles. Re-issue: to which is now added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, horsetails, and club-mosses by John Sowerby. Hand-coloured plates. It appears that the spine has been at some time repaired and strengthened; couple of small old splits to spine are still showing. White tape to joints, from repair. Bookplate to front endpaper. All plates are present. Some plates have foxing to edges, but most are just browned. Foxing to some page margins.

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DIE CACTACEAE: HANDBUCH DER KAKTEENKUNDE (6 VOLUMES)
Written by Curt Backeberg.
Stock no. 1823917
Published by Gustav Fischer Verlag. 1st thus 1982. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The Cacti: Handbook of Cactus Science. Text in German. Reprint of the 1958-1960 editions. Green cloth boards, orange titles. B/w photos and one or two in colour. Text in German. Volume I: 1st thus 1982; Volume II & III: 1st thus 1983; Volume IV & V: 1st thus 1984; Volume VI: 1st thus 1985. One or two minor marks to contents. Orange dustwrappers lovely and clean. All volumes contained in their own separate card slipcases.

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ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF SUCCULENT PLANTS: AIZOACEAE A-E
Written by Heidrun E.K. Hartmann.
Stock no. 2139827
Published by Springer-Verlag. Circa 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Colour pictorial boards. With 54 figures and 384 colour photos, printed in 48 colour plates. ISBN: 3540416919. Light knocks to top and tail of spine. A little browning to page edges.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
Written by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 2139674
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Observer's Book no. 2. Describing 200 British species with 220 illustrations 100 of which are in full colour. Browning to spine and edges. Damp staining to base of spine and to side of corresponding edges and pages internally. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Browning and foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with heavy browning/fading to covers; edge-tears with chips and small pieces of loss; some marks; creased.

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DAPHNES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR GARDENERS
Written by Robin White.
Stock no. 1823746
Published by Timber Press. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Whether you are selecting your first daphne or your twenty-first, this book will ensure daphnes are better known and more widely grown. Blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9780881927528. A nice clean copy in a pictorial dustwrapper whcih is lightly edge-worn.

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THE CACTI OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Written by Lyman Benson. Illustrated by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.
Stock no. 2139157
Published by Stanford University Press. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth with black title block, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. Some diagrams. ISBN: 0804708630. Wrapper has some light edge-creasing.

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LORDS & LADIES (NMN 17)
Written by C.T. Prime. Illustrated by Robert J. Jones.
Stock no. 2136930
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Monograph series no. 17. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis, 6 b/w photos plus line drawings and diagrams. Small knocks to base of spine. Browning to half-title page and outer page edges, which are also foxed. Wrapper is browned to spine and has closed tear to top; with a few small chips and nicks along edges.

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FERNS (NN 74)
Written by Christopher N. Page.
Stock no. 1823173
Published by Collins. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 74. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 21 colour photos and over 160 photos and diagrams in b/w. ISBN: 0002193833. Boards clean and bright. Minor grubby mark to base of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine (as is usual) else clean and bright.

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WOODLANDS (NN 100)
Written by Oliver Rackham.
Stock no. 2135915
Published by Collins. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition.

The 100th volume in the New Naturalist series. Leather bound edition to mark the 100th volume of the New Naturalist Library. Limited to 100 copies. All edges gilt. ISBN: 0007202431. This is Copy No. 52, SIGNED by author on bookplate to front endpaper. Bookplate has small red smudge mark to one edge. Slip case is near fine.

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LORDS & LADIES (NMN 17)
Written by C.T. Prime. Illustrated by Robert J. Jones.
Stock no. 2134984
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Monograph series no. 17. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis, 6 b/w photos plus line drawings and diagrams. Bumping to top and tail of spine. Pale foxing/browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine with a few foxspots; closed tear to one corner.

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