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201 books in list (last updated 19 September 2008)
Schipperges, Heinrich : Der Garten der Gesundheit: Medizin im Mittelalter. München: dtv 1990. 280p white paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w plates, hardly used, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit sauberen Seiten und vielen s/w Bildern PKM 118503 £12
Kosch, Alois : Was blüht denn da? Tabelle zum Bestimmen von über 600 wichtigen Pflanzen nach der Blüte. Stuttgart: Franck 1935. 136p cloth with blue dustjacket, minor shelfwear, corners slightly bumped, dj sunned and sl torn, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations and some colour plates, VG, schönes Exemplar, Schutzumschlag abgenutzt und leicht ausgeblichen, Innenteil sauber und unmarkiert PKM 118288 £10
Steentoft, Margaret : Flowering Plants in West Africa. Cambridge University Press 1988. 344p green hardback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, as new PKM 118096 £30
Shewell-Cooper, W E : The A.B.C. of Pruning. London: English Universities Press 1963. (The A.B.C. Gardening Series) 148p cloth with red/blue dustjacket, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, some b&w illustrations, index, very good condition PKM 117740 £7
Walkden, G B : Cloche Cultivation. London: Collingridge 1955. 77p cloth with red dustjacket, light foxing, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, dustjacket heavily worn, otherwise good condition PKM 117738 £7
Gilmour, J S L ; Walters, S M [Ed]: Humphrey Gilbert-Carter: A Memorial Volume. Cambridge: University Botanic Garden 1975. 132p green cloth, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, index, some faint foxing to front board, otherwise very good condition PKM 117632 £16
Rockley, Lady : Historic Gardens of England. First Edition. London: Country Life 1938. 260p green cloth, spine sunned, binding firm, 96 b&w plates, index, inscription to front endpaper, bleach stains to spine, otherwise good condition PKM 116996 £9
Bach, Edward : The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach, Physician. What The Flowers Do For The Human Body. Fourth Impression. Ashington: Daniel 1959. 130p cloth with white dustjacket, pages unmarked, jacket rubbed and chipped, slightly soiled, very good condition PKM 116730 £12
Stäbler, Dieter : Pflanzen in Paraguay: Ein Buch zum Erkennen von tropischen und subtropischen Pflanzen in Paraguay./ Plantas en el Paraguay: Un libro para reconocer plantas tropicales y subtropicales en el Paraguay. 2nd Edition. Asuncion 1987. 143p black hb with illustrated cover, colour plates, maps, clean pages, text in German and Spanish, VG PKM 116661 £24
Klein, Sidney : The Garden of Enchantment, for Old and Young Alike. London: Rider 1931. 144p green cloth, slight foxing on endpapers, photo frontispiece, index, binding good and tight, lower edge of spine faded, otherwise a very good copy PKM 116208 £9
Needham, Joseph : Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part 1. Botany. Cambridge University Press 1986. (Science and Civilisation in China) 756p cloth with white/blue dustjacket, fraying to head and foot of spine, pages unmarked, binding firm, near fine condition PKM 115669 £100
Fitting, Hans [Ed]: Strasburger's Text-book of Botany. London: Macmillan 1930. 818p green cloth, fraying to head and foot of spine, inscription to front endpaper, some ink underlining to pages, binding loose but holding, hinges cracked, acceptable condition PKM 115345 £13
Clements, Julia : Julia Clements' Flower Arrangements: Seasonal Flowers. A Complete Set of 24 Illustrative Cards with Instructions. London: Hamlyn 1969. 24 seperated cards with one side colour illustrations and instructions on the other side, complete set of 24 seaonsal flowers arrangements, with original box, as new PKM 115115 £17
Lowson, J M : A Text-Book of Botany. Sixth Edition. London: Clive 1922. (The University Tutorial Series) 638p grey cloth with gilt lettering, corners slightly rubbed, fraying to head and foot of spine, signature to front endpaper, pencil marks to pages, hinges cracked, index, very good condition PKM 114719 £10
Groom, Percy : Elementary Botany. Twenty-First Impression. London: Bell 1934. 272p green/brown cloth, spine slightly sunned, fraying to head and foot of spine, signature to front endpaper, many b&w illustrations, index, very good condition PKM 114716 £17
Scott, Dukinfield ; Brooks, F T [Ed]: Structural Botany. An Introduction to Structural Botany. Part 2: Flowerless Plants. Tenth Edition. London: Black 1932. 332p green cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, spine slightly sunned, signature to front endpaper, pencil marks to pages, very good condition PKM 114712 £13
Selwood, Sara ; Gasse, Ian [Eds]: Cultural Trends. Issue 38, 2000. The Value of Music in London and Local Authority Historic Parks in the UK. London: Centre for Policy Studies 2000. 107p black paperback, near fine condition PKM 114340 £10
North, F J : Snowdonia. The National Park of North Wales. First Edition. London: Collins 1949. (The New Naturalist) 469p green cloth, fraying to head and foot of spine, pages clean and unmarked, binding weak, many colour plates, letters on spine faded, index, very good condition PKM 113656 £13
Simon, Andre [Ed]: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy. Section 5. Fruit. First Edition. London: Wine & Food Society 1942. 125p brown paperback, very good condition with rubbed corners, unmarked, cover slightly soiled PKM 112887 £19
Smon, Andre [Ed]: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy. Section 4. Cereals. First Edition. London: Wine & Food Society 1943. 141p white paperback, spine showing inner binding, corners rubbed, hinge weak, binding good, good condition PKM 112886 £16
National Chrysanthemum Society : The Cultivation of Out-door Chrysanthemums for Amateurs. London 1962. 62p blue paperback, cover slightly detached, otherwise near fine condition, b/w illustrations and a colour plate PKM 112835 £30
Halsham, John : Every Man's Book of Garden Flowers with Short Directions for Their Culture. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1940. 374p brown spine white paper covered boards, b/w plates, slightly soiled and worn spine, very good condition, unmarked PKM 112725 £10
Step, Edward : Wayside and Woodland Blossoms: A Guide to British Wild Flowers. Series One, Two, and Three. London: Warne 1948,1946, 1941. 176p cloth with grey dustjacket, 188p with grey dustjacket 191p red cloth with gilt lettering, dustjackets worn and spines sunned, name stickers to inner front boards, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many colour illustrations, index, early purple PKM 112432 £32
Burbidge, P G : The Pen and the Rose. London: Spicers 1957. 28p cloth with pink jacket, slightly chipped jacket, spine sunned, many illustrations, very good condition PKM 112233 £12
Badmin, S R : Trees in Britain. London: Penguin 1948. 31p black illustrated card boards, full of b/w illustrations, unmarked, very good condition PKM 112214 £6
Leighton, Clare : Four Hedges: A Gardner's Chronicle. First Cheap Edition. New York: Macmillan 1936. 167p green cloth with gilt lettering, spine slightly rubbed, inscription to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w wood engravings by the author, near fine condition PKM 112187 £13
Temple, William : Upon the Gardens of the Epicurus: With other 17th Century Garden Essays. First Edition. London: Chatto 1908. (King's Classics) 172p white/blue cardboard cover, water stain to back board, soiled spine with minor shelfwear, inscription to front end paper, pages unmarked, very good condition PKM 112151 £30
Browne, Sir Thomas : Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus. Second Impression. London: Macmillan 1906. (Golden Treasury Series) 208p blue cloth with gilt lettering, spine slightly sunned and rubbed, pages clean and unmarked, index, very good condition PKM 112144 £16
Notcutt, Stephen : Notcutts Plants. 75th Anniversary Edition. Notcutts Nurseries 1973. 190p green/red paperback, pages clean and unmarked, cover creased, very good condition PKM 112141 £9
Verite, Marcelle : Gardens through the Ages. London: Odhams 19. 93p cloth with white jacket, a tear on jacket near the top edge, beautifully illustrated in colour, very good condition PKM 112075 £12
Handasyde, Emily : The Four Gardens. First Edition. Edinburgh: Foulis 1905. 181p white/pink illustrated cloth, slightly soiled and cracked near the top/bottom of spine, corners dented, pages unmarked with minor foxing, very good condition PKM 112070 £22
Willis, J C : A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns. Cambridge University Press 1973. 1236p cloth with grey/brown dustjacket, spine slightly sunned, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, slightly chipped jacket, index, very good condition PKM 112062 £15
Simon, Andre [Ed]: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy. Section 2: Fish. Section 3: Vegetables. London: Wine & Food Society 1942. 118p and 136p blue paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, light foxing, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 112041 £11
Kelman, Janet Harvey ; Allen, Olive : Gardens: Shown to the Children. London: Jack. (Shown to the Children) 100p green cloth, shelfwear, endpapers darkened, some pages binding loose but holding, thirty-two colour plates, index, fair condition PKM 111931 £10
Gapper, Frances ; Gapper, Patience ; Drury, Sally : Gardens of England. First Edition. London: A & C Black 1991. (The Blue Guides) 628p blue paperback, shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w photographs, with key map to atlas pages, sticker residue on front cover, very good condition PKM 111889 £12
Wheelwright, Horace : Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist: Or, Notes on the Field Sports and Fauna of Australia Felix. London: Routledge 1861. 272p purple cloth with gilt lettering, signature to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, worn and soiled boards with minor stain, corners bumped, very good condition PKM 111820 £40
Brimble, L J F : Flowers in Britain, Wild, Ornamental and Economic, and Some Relatives in Other Lands. London: Macmillan 1947. 393p cloth with green/brown dustjacket with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, spine slightly sunned, pages clean and unmarked, many colour illustrations, very good condition PKM 111740 £14
Shaylor, Sidney [Collected By]: In Praise of Gardens. London: Hanson 1900?. 151p green cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear, fraying to head and foot of spine, inscription to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, many b&w illustrations, very good condition PKM 111704 £20
Cox, E H M : The Evolution of a Garden. London: Williams & Norgate 1927. (Home University Library) 256p yellow cloth, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, jacket slightly soiled, index, very good condition PKM 111687 £6
Drury, Elizabeth ; Bridgeman, Harriet : Guide to the Gardens of Britain & Europe. London: Granada 1979. 330p yellow paperback, minor shelfwear, pencil marks to front endpaper, binding firm, with map, index, as new PKM 111655 £10
Cook, E T [Ed]: The Century Book of Gardening: A Comprehensive Work for Every Lover of the Garden. New York: Scribner's 1910. (The "Country Life" Library) 26 volumes large format booklets, 15-20 pages each, contains b/w illustrations, with a detachable cloth illustrated boards, slightly worn cover, booklets in neat condition, unmarked, very good condition PKM 111631 £33
Hyams, Edward : A History of Gardens and Gardening. London: Dent 1971. 346p green cloth with gilt lettering, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, near fine condition PKM 111602 £11
Clapham, A R ; Roles, Sybil [Illustr]: Flora of the British Isles Illustrations. Part 2: Rosaceae to Polemoniaceae. Cambridge University Press 1960. 119p green paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, as new PKM 111597 £15
Clapham, A R ; Roles, Sybil [Illustr]: Flora of the British Isles Illustrations. Part 1: Pteridophyta to Papilionaceae. Cambridge University Press 1957. 144p green paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, as new PKM 111596 £18
Clapham, A R ; Roles, Sybil [Illustr]: Flora of the British Isles Illustrations. Part 3: Boraginaceae to Compositae. Cambridge University Press 1984. 124p green paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, many b&w illustrations, index, as new PKM 111595 £10
Nash, John : English Garden Flowers. First Edition. London: Duckworth 1948. 30p cloth with red dustjacket, large, signature to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, many colour illustrations, jacket chipped, very good condition PKM 111590 £10
Cornish, Vaughan : Historic Thorn Trees in the British Isles. London: Country Life 1941. 94p green cloth, corners slightly bumped, spine slightly rubbed, pencil marks to pages, many b&w photographs, index, very good condition PKM 111582 £16
Pryor, Lindsay : The Biology of Eucalypts. London: Arnold 1976. (Studies in Biology) 82p orange paperback, spine sunned, ex lib, very good condition PKM 110121 £7
Brett, Walter : Pictorial Poultry-Keeping and Gardening and Encyclopaedia of Rabbit, Goat and Bee-Keeping, Pig Keeping, Cow Keeping & Small Holdings Management. With 1200 How-To-Do-It Photographs. London: Pearson 1936. 320p maroon cloth, slightly worn spine only, very good condition, fully illustrated PKM 109439 £22
Brooks, F T : Flowerless Plants. Part 2: An Introduction to Structural Botany. Tenth Edition. London: A & C Black 1932. 317p green cloth with gilt lettering, near fine condition, illustrations throughout, indexed PKM 109438 £8
Bose, Jagadis Chunder : Plant Autographs and Their Revelations. London: Longman 1927. 230p purple cloth with gilt lettering, spine sunned and torn, pages slightly browned but unmarked, very good condition, many illustrations: Plants as writers PKM 109027 £11
Mitchell, Alan : A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe. London: Collins 1974. (Collins Field Guide) 288p white laminated hardback, minor shelfwear to top/bottom of spine, fully illustrated in colour, near fine condition PKM 108970 £10
Letts, John : Hardy Heaths and the Heather Garden. Ipswich: Ancient House 1966. 124p green cloth with gilt lettering, corners slightly dented, near fine condition PKM 108966 £10
Bush, Raymond : Frost and the Fruitgrower. London: Cassell 1945. 120p green cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear to top/bottom of spine, pages unmarked with illustrations, very good condition PKM 108965 £9
Makins, F K : The Identification of Trees and Shrubs: How to Name without Previous Knowledge of Botany Any Wild or Garden Tree or Shrub Likely to be Met with in the British Isles. London: Dent 1936. 326p navy cloth with gilt lettering, minor shelfwear to extremities, spine sunned, pages show ink markings, very good condition PKM 108963 £11
Tempany, Harold : Introduction to Tropical Agriculture. London: Longman 1958. 347p cloth with green jacket, minor shelfwear to top/bottom of spine, pages clean and unmarked, owner inscription to front free end paper, very good condition PKM 108960 £16
Ferguson, Nicola : Garden Plant Directory (Later Republished as: Right Plant, Right Place: Over 1400 Plants for Every Situation in the Garden) London: Pan 1984. 304p green paperback, fully illustrated in colour, very good condition PKM 108959 £44
Jones, Percy : The Rambler's Guide to Wild Flowers. London: Routledge 1942. 246p cloth with white jacket, chipped jacket, half detached, boards show minor shelfwear to top/bottom of spine, pages clean and unmarked, very good condition PKM 108761 £8
Hanbury, Frederick : The London Catalogue of British Plants. Tenth Edition. London: Bell & Sons 1908. 48p grey paperback, cover very slightly scratched, pages marked by pencil, very good condition PKM 108616 £11
Chatfield, Judith : A Tour of Italian Gardens. London: Ward, Lock & Co 1988. 224p cloth with black/blue jacket, jacket scuffed with minor shelfwear to top of spine, pages bright and crisp with beautiful illustrations throughout, very good condition PKM 108186 £14
Barthlott, Wilhelm ; Rauh, Werner [Preface]: Cacti: Botanical Aspects, Descriptions & Cultivation. London: Stanley Thornes 1979. 374p cloth, dust jacket in decent quality, pages are clean and unmarked, included close to 100 pages of coloured photographs, ideal for collection, as new condition PKM 106805 £30
Haensch, Günther ; Haberkamp, Gisela : Dictionary of Agriculture. Amsterdam: Elsevier 1975. 999p ex lib copy in green publisher's cloth, VG, hardly used: German, English, French, Spanish, Russian: Fourth Edition PKM 105024 £128
Hulme, Edward : Wild Fruits of the Country-side. London: Hutchinson. 221 green decorated cloth, fair condition, inner hinge cracked, pages clean and unmarked, binding slightly loose, one plate detached, water stain, previous owner's name and address and paper stuck to front endpaper PKM 104693 £8
Henfrey, Arthur : An Elementary Course of Botany, Structural Physiological and Systematic. Illustrated by Upwards of 500 Woodcuts. Second Edition. Revised and Parr Re - Written by Maxwell Masters. London: Van Voorst 1884. 724p green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, Britten Memorial Library bookplate, binding sl skewed but altogether in good shape for such a thick book, nice copy, many illus, VG PKM 104022 £15
Jekyll, Gertrude : Home and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both. London: Antique Collector 1986. 374p hardback with dustjacket with photographic illustrations, excellent condition, dj a little worn, but in very good condition, inscription on inside front cover otherwise book itself as new, 53 b/w illustrations and 16 colour photographs PKM 103943 £14
Nicholson, George : The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening - A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture for Gardners and Botonists. Division 1. - A to Car. London: Upcott Gill 1880. approx 240p orig green cloth sl worn with humidity marks, colour plates and many b/w illus, edges gilt, VG PKM 97871 £14
Maw, Percival Trentham : The Practice of Forestry concerning also The Financial Aspects of Afforestation. London: Fisher Unwin 1909. 503p green cloth bright, firm copy, spine gilt, clean pleasant copy PKM 97787 £20
Tagore, Rabindranath : The Gardener. Translated from the Original Bengali. London: Macmillan 1914. 150p blue cloth, orld bookplate and names to endpaper, nice copy, dedicated to W B Yeats, VG PKM 97714 £9
Mazal, Otto : Der Baum. Ein Symbol des Lebens in der Buchmalerei. Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 1988. 86p plus many colour plates, tall hardback with illus laminated cover, VG+, as new PKM 96441 £15
Küsters, Urban : Der verschlossene Garten: Volkssprachliche Hohelied-Auslegung und monastische Lebensform im 12. Jahrhundert. Düsseldorf: Droste 1985. (Studia Humaniora) 365p white paperback with green lettering and b/w illus to front cover, a nice and clean copy, very sl yellowed with age, unused PKM 96319 £20
Vince, John : Old Farms: An Illustrated Guide. London: Murray 1982. 160p large paperback with yellow cover, printed from handwriting, excellent copy without fault PKM 96066 £10
Schmidtke, Dietrich : Studien zur dingallegorischen Erbauungsliteratur des Spätmittelalters. Am Beispiel der Gartenallegorie. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1982. (Hermaea Germanistische Forschungen) 582p thick white paperback wrapper binding with orange square to cover, VG+, nice fresh unused copy PKM 94936 £64
Schouwink, Wilfried : Der wilde Eber in Gottes Weinberg. Zur Darstellung des Schweins in Literatur und Kunst des Mittelalters. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke 1985. 125p hardback, red cover, VG PKM 94803 £12
Hennig, Ursula : Untersuchungen zur frühmittelhochdeutschen Metrik am Beispiel der Wiener Genesis. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1968. (Hermaea Germanistische Forschungen) 350p brown cloth, as new, never used, VG+ PKM 94632 £34
Chapman, R W : Johnsonian and Other Essays and Reviews. Oxford University Press 1953. 243p small format, blue cloth, replacement paper label bound in, VG ex lib, contains essays on printing and Gardening etc PKM 93997 £6
University of Oxford : University of Oxford. Botanic Garden. Oxford: Willprint 1989. 35p stapled, with illus & colour plates PKM 92862 £6
Areola, O ; Faniran, A : Essentials of Soil Study. London: Heinemann 1978. 278p pb, diagrams, tables, photos, ex lib, uncommon title, very good condition, pages clean PKM 92379 £24
Goaman, Muriel : Judy's Book of Flower Arrangement. London: Faber 1957. 40p hardback with dustjacket,m with protective transparent cover, prize label, VG Illustrations by Frank Whiting PKM 92188 £10
Rothe, K C [Ed]: Der moderne Naturgeschichtsunterricht. Beiträge zur Kritik und Ausgestaltung. Wien: Tempsky 1908. 235p reboundin orange cloth, from a government library, VG: Der Schulgarten als Zentrum der Erziehung PKM 92128 £22
Ollivaud, A : Les Origines Intellectuelles du Jardin d'Enfants. Paris: Lipschutz 1935. 176p rebound in strong black cloth, ex government library, VG+ PKM 92057 £24
Bernasconi, Emilio : Per L'Agraria nelle Scuola Elementare. Milano: Gruppo d'Azione per le Scuole del Populo 1910. 128p rebound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, VG+ with many illus in the text, pupils as gardeners! with a chapter on "gli allevamenti della scuola", and a "calendario Agricolo" - very interesting title PKM 91842 £42
Fane, R : Fifty-two Kenya Trees and How to Recognize Them. Nairobi 1950. 19p plus 8 plates, stapled booklet, pencil notes giving native names to first part, staples rusty PKM 91515 £8
Bray, Sewell ; Dawe, C V : Farm Accounts. Oxford University Press 1948. 149p cloth, v rare, first edition, foldout specimen forms, appendices PKM 91452 £15
Mingay, G E [Ed]: The Victorian Countryside. Vol 1 - 2. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1981. 2 Vols, 702p cloth w/ dustjacket and protective sleeve, ex lib, photographs and illustrations, VG+ PKM 91419 £40
O'Malley, Raymond : One-Horse Farm: Crofting in the West Highlands. London: Muller 1948. 209p green cloth, photographs, VG PKM 90284 £8
Langer, R H M : How Grasses Grow. London: Arnold 1972. (Studies in Biology) brown paperback, VG+ PKM 90256 £5
: Cramer Books on Botany, 1956 - 1979. Sic Hortum cum bibliotheca nihil deerit. Hitchin: Wheldon & Wesley 1980. 152p orange paperback, VG PKM 90241 £10
Hill, Monica [Ed]: How To Plant Churches. London: Marc Europe 1984. 131p paperback with tree to cover, VG PKM 90195 £12
Norman, M J T ; Pearson, C J P [Eds]: The Ecology of Tropical Food Crops. Cambridge University Press 1984. 368p large paperback, as new, never used, first edition PKM 89235 £21.6
Wareing, P F ; Holmes, G P ; Harley, J L : A Discussion of Forests and Forestry in Britain. (Philosophical Transactions Vol 271, No 911) London: Royal Society 1975. 232p large paperback, many maps and plans, VG PKM 88789 £18
Enzer, Meir : The Moshav. Tel Aviv: Israel Digest 1966. (Israel Today) 47p stapled, with many illus, VG PKM 88643 £10
Hooker, J D : Botany. London: Macmillan 1879. (Science Primers) 129p brown cloth with black lettering to cover and spine, small volume, hinges weak and binding loosening but holding, pages clean with diagrams throughout, owner's inscription and index, VG PKM 86398 £14
Cahn, Michael : Eloquent Names of Rhetoric: The Gardens of Eloquence. Anglistentag Marburg 1991. Offprint, 11p, VG PKM 86132 £1
Graveson, William : British Wild Flowers Their Haunts and Associations. London: Swarthmore Press 1919. 320p olive green cloth with illustrated cover, blue lettering, worn copy, spine separating, pages clean with plates throughout, VG PKM 86113 £5.4
Childs, Ann ; Coleman, Stanley : Say it With Flowers and Plants. Illustrated by Richard Fowler. Ventura 1979. 32p white paperback with illustrated laminated cover, landscape profile, pages clean with illustrations throughout, VG PKM 86108 £4.5
Westell, W Percival : The Natural History of the Garden. London: A & C Black 1920. 87p grey hardback with illustrated patterned paper covered boards, spine missing but binding good, pages clean with illustrations, VG PKM 86107 £10.8
Little, Allan [Ed]: Scotland's Gardens. Edinburgh: Spurbooks 1981. 280p hardback with grey pictorial laminated jacket, first edition, little use, pages clean with photographs throughout, VG PKM 85921 £7.2
Utting, Peter : Trees, People and Power. Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America. London: Earthscan 1993. 206p green paperback with laminated cover, hardly used, pages clean with bibliography and index, VG PKM 85741 £10.8
(No Author) : Obst, colour plate with black and white plate on back, removed from Brockhaus Handbuch des Wissens 1922. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1922. (Handbuch des Wissens) plate removed from binding, VG PKM 84024 £5
Groves, R H [Ed]: Australian Vegetation. Cambridge University Press 1981. 449p hardback with green pictorial laminated jacket, ex-lib first edition, little use, pages clean with photographs and index, VG PKM 82347 £61.87
Kozllowski, T T [Ed]: Seed Biology. Volume 1: Importance, Development and Germination, Volume 2: Germination Control, Metabolism and Pathology, Volume 3: Insects and Seed Collection, Storage, Testing and Certification. London: Academic Press 1972. (Physical Ecology) 3 Volume set, green cloth with brown cloth boards, black lettering to cover and gilt to spine, ex-lib copies hence stickers and stamps, pages clean with plates thorughout, nice set, VG PKM 82113 £56.25
Roberts, E H [Ed]: Viability of Seeds. London: Chapman & Hall 1971. 448p green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, used ex-lib copy, slight scuffing to edges and corners, first edition, pages clean with photographs, VG PKM 82112 £13.5
Raven, John : A Botanist's Garden. London: Collins 1971. 271p hardback with original illustrated jacket, first edition, owner's inscription and pages clean with plates, VG PKM 82097 £7.87
Phitos, D : Wild Flowers of Greece. Translation From the Greek by P Haritonidou. Athens: Society of the Friends of the Tress 1965. 81p white and green paperback with pictorial laminated cover, pages clean with photographs throughout, VG PKM 82075 £16.87
Allan, Meg : Fisons Guide to Gardens in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. London: Frewin 1970. 449p white and green paperback with stiff laminated cover, some use, pages clean with index and printed end papers, VG PKM 82074 £9
Hohenegger, Alfred : Versi e Fiori. Roma: Servostampa 1967. little booklet 16p bound with red ribbon, 11cm, not sewn, verse by Goethe, Tasso, Baudelaire etc, red rose on cover, apparently an attempt to introduce additional print products ito the flower market, a little handprinted pensiero to be attached to a bunc PKM 82002 £4.5
Sackville-West, Vita : Some Flowers. Plates by Graham Rust. London: National Trust 1993. 111p hardback with blue illustrated laminated cover, as new, pages clean with full page plates throughout, VG+ PKM 80205 £9
Maxwell-Lefroy, H : "Thrips" on Cacao Trees and Related Correspondance. Barbados: West Indian Bulletin 1900. 2 items, 1 blue 15p offprint with scuffed card cover comprising a reprinted letter from the author with appendix and illustrations, also 1 large folded sheet containing a reprinted letter from D Morris the Commissioner of Agriculture and Lefroy's response PKM 76351 £13.5
Gillespie, James : The School Gardener. Book One and Two. London: Blackie 1958. 119p 138p peach hardbacks with illustrated covers, ex-lib copies, little use, slightly dusty, pages clean with diagrams and plates, VG PKM 74975 £14.4
Newby, Howard : Green and Pleasant Land? Social Change in Rural England. London: Puffin 1980. 301p paperback with illustrated cover and blue spine, little use, pages browning but clean with charts and illustratiosn throughout, VG PKM 73970 £8
Carter, A R : Dutch Lights for Growers and Gardeners. London: Vinton 1956. (Agricultural and Horticultural Students Series) 194p hardback, dustjacket, unused fresh copy but top edge a bit dusty PKM 73232 £5.4
Wyllie, James : Guide to Farm Management. London: Vinton 1956. (Agricultural and Horticultural Students Series) 142p hardback, dustjacket, top edge dusty but unused for half a century, VG w/ plates, first ed PKM 73231 £3
Willis, Stephen : Weed Control in Farm and Garden. London: Vinton 1954. (Agricultural and Horticultural Students Series) 184p hardback, with dustjacket, well preserved but a little dusty, nice copy, first edition PKM 73229 £7.2
Hey, G L ; Marshall, K : The Control of Pests and Diseases in Agricultural and Horticultural Crops. London: Vinton 1958. (Agricultural and Horticultural Students Series) 172p hardback, with dustjacket, well preserved but a little dusty, nice copy PKM 73228 £9
Andrae, Gunilla ; Beckman, Bjorn : The Wheat Trap. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies 1985. 180p yellow and grey paperback with pictorial cover, hardly used, pages a little browned but pages clean, VG PKM 71405 £9
Hurd, R G ; Sheard, G F : Fuel Saving in Greenhouses: The Biological Aspects. London: Grower Books 1981. (Grower Guide) 55p orange paperback with inset pictorial panel on cover, hardly used, pages clean with charts and diagrams, VG PKM 71401 £9
Winship Taylor, David ; Hickey, Leo [Eds]: Flowering Plant Origin, Evolution and Phylogeny. London: Chapman & Hall 1996. 403p green hardback with pictorial laminated boards, unused, pages clean with illustrations, references and index, VG+, as new PKM 70758 £73.8
Sanderson, Jim ; Harris, Larry [Eds]: Landscape Ecology. A Top - Down Approach. London: Lewis 2000. 246p green hardback with pictorial laminated boards, unused, pages clean and unmarked with references, index, diagrams, VG PKM 70711 £36
Scott, S H : The Observer's Book of Cacti and Other Succulents. Over 300 Species Described. Fully Illustrated. London: Warne 1958. (Observer Books) 159p small cloth, white pictorial jacket with small tear to rear top cover corner, pages clean and unmarked with colour and b/w plates throughout, VG PKM 70555 £5.4
Bellamy, David : The Queen's Hidden Garden. Buckingham Palace's Treasury of Wild Plants. Illustrated by Marjorie Lyon. London: David & Charles 1984. 224p large green hardback with gilt lettering on spine, white illustrated jacket, tiny tear to top rear spine corner but otherwise undamaged, green illustrated end papers, pages clean and unmarked with colour illustartions throughout, VG PKM 70055 £8.1
Mabey, Richard ; Evans, Tony : The Flowering of Britain. London: Arrow 1982. 173p large square pb, frontisp, colour plates, index, VG PKM 70020 £6.3
Hunt, John Dixon [Ed]: Encounters: Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts. London: Studio Vista 1971. 176p hb dj, various contributors, on Turner and the Romantic Poets; Hogarth and the English Garden; Dickens and the Traditions of Graphic Satire, etc, index, notes, VG PKM 70019 £9
Priebe, Hermann ; Bergmann, Denis et al: Fields of Conflict in European Farm Policy. Trade Policy Research Centre 1972. (Agricultural Trade Paper) 70p stapled paperback with green card cover, pages clean and unmarked, with compliment's slip from Director of Research Centre, VG PKM 68647 £12
Henfrey, Arthur : An Elementary Course of Botany, Structural Physiological and Systematic. Illustrated by Upwards of 500 Woodcuts. Second Edition. Revised and Parr Re - Written by Maxwell Masters. London: Van Voorst 1870. 708p green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, small hole to centre of spine, cover almost entirely detached and binding opening in places, pretty weak particularly to front of book, edges browning but pages clean with diagrams, VG PKM 67905 £12.6
Stalin, Joseph : Work in the Countryside. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1956. 32p stapled pamphlet, name and date on front cover, otherwise clean unmarked pages, VG PKM 65588 £7.2
A R G : A Bunch of Pansies. Thoughts Gathered in the Garden of God. London: Mowbray 1912. 106p very small limp leather (9,6cm) with fleurs de lis blindstamp and gilt lettering, edges and spine scuffed, cover detached, binding pretty weak, edges browned, gilt top edging, pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 65422 £7.2
Bishop's Stortford Natural History Society : List of Vascular Plants of Bishop's Stortford and District. Bishop's Stortford and District Natural History Society 1952. 57p paperback booklet, hardly used, pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 63492 £7.2
Newsham, J C [Ed]: Dairying and Dairy Farming. (The Dairy Students' Union). London: Speaight and Sons 1911. 362p red cloth with black lettering on cover, pages clean, includes work on the constructio of cowsheds and dairy cattle breeding, period advertising, still VG PKM 63467 £19.8
Raphael, Sandra ; Thacker, Christopher et al: Of Oxfordshire Gardens. Illustrated by Meriel Edmunds. Oxford: Polytechnic 1982. 103p cream hardback with brown lettering and illustration, green d/j undamaged, minor library markings, with dediction from Christoher Thacker, VG PKM 62706 £12
Allen, Arthur : Rural Education. Vol 1 and 2. London: Allman 1950. vi 255p xiii 143p hardback in green cloth, apart from library markings, clean unmarked pages, VG ex lib copy PKM 60936 £16.2
Yates, Lamartine ; Warriner, D : Food and Farming in Post-War Europe. Oxford University Press 1943. (The World To-Day) v 118p sm cloth, dj sl torn, index, sm water mark on front cover, illustrations, maps, VG PKM 60017 £9
Goodland, Norman : Down on the Farm, His Second Book of Country Craftiness. Southampton: Paul Cave Publications 1982. 96p stapled booklet, illustrated, VG PKM 59834 £7.2
Snow, Robert : The Causes of the Bud Eccentricity and the Large Divergence Angles between Leaves in Cucurbitaceae. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, No 762, Vol 250, pp 53 - 77) London: Royal Society 1965. 24p offprint A4 card covers, photogr plates, illustrations, VG PKM 59185 £16.2
Fritch, F E ; Salisbury, E J : An Introduction to the Structure and Reproduction of Plants. London: Bell & Sons 1920. viii 458p cloth, frontisp, index, illustrations, bibliography, photogr plates, in excellent condition, VG PKM 59133 £26
Duigan, Susan : Pollen Analysis of the Cromer Forest Bed Series in East Anglia. With an Appendix on the Non-Marine Mollusca. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. No 729, Vol 246, pp 149 - 202). London: Royal Society 1963. 53p offprint A4 card covers, bibliograhy, photogr plates, illustrations, VG PKM 58984 £13.5
Osborne, P J : Insect Faunas of late Devensian and Flandrian Age from Church Stretton, Shropshire. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. No 852, Vol 263, pp 327 - 367) London: Royal Society 1972. 40p offprint A4 card covers, tables, bibliography, VG PKM 58801 £13.5
Griebel, C : Zur Anatomie einiger einheimischer Früchte, gleichzeitig ein Beitrag zum Vorkommen der sogenannten Inklusen. (= Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, Vol 33, Heft 6, 15 März 1917) Berlin: Springer 1917. 18p essay removed from binding, illustrations, VG PKM 57756 £9
Jones, W Neilson ; Rayner, M C : A Textbook of Plant Biology. London: Methuen 1920. viii 262p green cloth, frontisp with tissue guard, photogr plates, index, illustrations, in excellent condition PKM 57449 £32.4
Jeffries, Richard : Wild Life in a Southern County. London: Smith, Elder & Co 1879. xii 387p green cloth, fresh gilt on cover and spine, sl weak inner hinges, faint foxing, clean pages, altogether a very nice copy of the first edition, VG PKM 52860 £36
Dandy, J E [Ed]: List of British Vascular Plants. Prepared J E Dandy for the British Museum and the Botanical Society of the British Isles. London: British Museum 1958. xvi 170p green cloth, index, VG+ PKM 52858 £13.5
Smith, Arthur : Insect Life. London: Penguin 1950. (Puffin Picture Books) 31p stapled booklet, oblong format, cover sl torn, many colour illustrations, VG PKM 52790 £4.5
Telepy, Katalin : Landscapes in the Hungarian National Gallery. Budapest: Corvina 1973. 31p and 36 colour plates square cloth dj, VG PKM 51277 £12.6
Headley, F H : Rambles in Epping Forest. London & North Eastern Railway Company 1920. 60p pb, illustrated cover, corners sl rubbed, folding maps in back, illustrations, VG PKM 51165 £10.8
Perring, F H ; Farrell, L [Eds]: Vascular Plants. (British Red Data Books 1) London: Society for the Promotion of Nature Conservation 1977. xxvi 98p red cloth, index, tables, hardly used, VG ex lib copy PKM 50713 £9
Mitton, Mervyn : Herbal Remedies: Rheumatism and Arthritis. Slough: Foulsham 1984. 64p pb, glossary guide to herbal suppliers, VG PKM 49757 £4.5
Williams, R O : School Gardening in the Tropics. London: Longmans 1959. 143p pb, illustrations, index, VG ex lib copy PKM 49653 £7.2
Tansley, A G ; Evans, E : Plant Ecology and the School. With 10 Figures. London: Allen & Unwin 1946. 97p green cloth, cover sl dusty, index, illustrations, VG ex lib copy PKM 49636 £12.6
Evans, E : Plant Diseases and their Chemical Control. Oxford: Blackwell 1968. xv 288p cloth, bibliography, appendix, tables, photogr plates, VG+ ex lib copy w/ shelfmarks, little used PKM 49128 £21.6
(No Author) : The Avon Domestic Economy, Standard 4. (Class Subject) Bath: Pitman 1920. (Educational Series) 48p sm pb, frontisp, illustrations, colour plates, VG PKM 49071 £10.8
Engler, Adolf : Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien: Übersicht über das gesamte Pflanzensystem mit Berücksichtigung der Medizinial- und Nutzpflanzen nebst einer Übersicht über die Florenreiche und Florengebiete der Erde zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen etc. Berlin: Bornträger 1907. xxviii 247p cloth spine, printed cover detaching, index, appendix, fünfte, umgearbeitete Auflage, pencil underlining on many pages, ex lib copy PKM 47326 £10.8
Bower, F O : Size and Form in Plants. With special Reference to the primary conducting Tracts. With 72 Figures and 25 Tables. London: Macmillan 1930. xiii 232p green cloth, sl weak inner hinges, index, tables, illustrations, VG ex lib copy PKM 47112 £18
Scott, Dukinfield : An Introduction to Structural Botany, Parts 1 - 2: Flowering Plants; Flowerless Plants. Re-edited by F T Brooks. London: Black 1927 - 193. 2 vols xii 308p xvi 332p green cloth, one frontisp, glossaries, indices, many illustrations, sl weak inner hinges, sm paper labels on spine, VG ex lib copies (mixed set, 10th & 11th edition) PKM 46635 £14.4
James, W O ; Clapham, A R : The Biology of Flowers. Oxford University Press 1935. viii 115p blue cloth, bibliography, illustrations, glossary, tables, in excellent condition, sm paper labels on spine, VG ex lib copy, nice and bright PKM 46617 £10.8
Smith, Kenneth : A Textbook of Plant Virus Diseases. With 101 Illustrations. London: Churchill 1937. x 615p green cloth, appendix, indices, photogr plates, sm paper labels on spine, VG ex lib copy, a fresh and bright and firm copy PKM 46609 £12.6
Bower, F O : Size and Form in Plants. With special Reference to the Primary Conducting Tracts. With 72 Figures and 25 Tables. London: Macmillan 1930. xiv 232p green cloth, index, illustrations, tables, sm paper labels on spine, minor wear to spine, VG ex lib copy PKM 46608 £25.2
Hobhouse, Penelope : Borders. London: Pavilion 1989. (National Trust Guides) 112p suqare format hb, dj, guide to herbaceous borders, appendices, index, VG+ PKM 45805 £7.2
[(No Author)]: Index to the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society and List of Awards. Supplement for 1946 - 1955. London: Royal Horticultural Society 1957. 265p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, VG PKM 45631 £13.5
Hinde, Thomas : Stately Gardens of Britain. Photographs by Dmitri Kasterine. London: Ebury Press 1983. 192p sm quarto cloth dj, many colour illustrations, index, 'a guided tour round 24 of Britain's finest gardens', VG+ PKM 45177 £13.5
Scott-James, Anne : Down to Earth. With Drawings by Osbert Lancaster. London: Joseph 1971. 176p large cloth dj, frontisp, index, on the style of the garden, roses, gardening on chalk or lime, etc, illustrations, photogr plates, VG PKM 45163 £9
Wright, Walter [Ed]: Cassell's Dictionary of Practical Gardening. An illustrated Encyclopaedia of Practical Horticulture for all Classes, Vol 1- 2. London: Cassell 1900. 2 vols bound in one, vii 480p each large heavy half calf A4 format, spine torn and held in place (just) by leather strip, frontisp, many illustrations, a few coloured plates, tables, index, very well preserved copy PKM 45001 £57.6
Theobald, Fred : First Report on Economic Zoology. (British Museum, Natural History). London: British Museum 1903. xxxiv 192p large cloth, top of spine very small tear, appendix, index, errata, old bookplate, illustrations, sections on animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, in excellent condition, VG ex lib copy PKM 44767 £21.6
Schnack, Friedrich : Im Wunderreich der Falter: Erlebnisse und Abenteuer. Mit 111 Originalaufnahmen und Natur-Urkunden von Dr Paul Denso. Berlin: Reimer 1930. 190p large cloth, frontisp, many photogr plates, VG PKM 43083 £16.2
Dalitzsch, Max [Ed]: Naturgeschichte der Insekten, Tausendfüsser, spinnenartigen Tiere und Krebstiere mit in den Text eingedruckten farbigen Abbildungen. Zum Schulgebrauch und zum Selbststudium. Esslingen: Schreiber 1900. (Kleine Bibliothek Schreiber) vii 100p cloth, many chromolithographical illustrations, in excellent condition PKM 43080 £39.6
Truffaut, Georges : Comment on soigne son jardin. 7ième édition. Versailles: Publications des Établissements et Laboratoires Georges Truffaut 1937?. 477p large paper boards with colour illus, spine detachted, index, illustrations, sl loose binding, otherwise VG PKM 42794 £10.8
Fichter, George : Insects. London: Dean & Son 1978. (Quiz-me) 48p sm square pb, many illustrations, questions, a few faint red paint marks probably caused by a kid's extensive splashing around with water colours, otherwise VG... PKM 42676 £2
Fairholt, F : Tobacco: Its History and Associations including an Account of the Plant and its Manufacture; with its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries. London: Chapman & Hall 1859. 332p [16] green cloth, frontisp, illustrations, gilt on spine, water mark on cover and first 4 pages, also affecting frontisp, otherwise in VG condition, binding firm, text clean, cloth nice PKM 42489 £80
MacSelf, A J : Plant Portraits and Plant Names: Their Meanings and Pronunciation. First Series A - K. Amateur Gardening 1930. 320p oblong format 4to hb, very many halftone plates, glossary, index, sl paint-spotting to front cover, VG PKM 42396 £14.4
Irving, Walter ; Malby, Reginald : Saxifrages or Rockfoils. London: Headley 1970. (The Rock Gardener's Library) 147p hb, colour frontisp with tissue guard, halftone plates, appendix, index, cover sl dulled, edges of spine scuffed, VG PKM 42376 £16.2
(No Author) : The Family Economist: A Penny Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Moral, Physical and Domestic Improvement of the Industrious Classes. London: Groombridge 1848 - 185. 704p half brown calf well preserved, marbled boards, three volumes bound as one, 1848 - 1850 editions, contemporary binding inscribed 1851, figures in text (mainly engravings), stories, health and household tips, rural affairs etc, binding intact and fron PKM 41994 £72
Millet-Robinet, Cora : Le Jardinier des fenêtres, des appartements et des petits jardins. Troisième édition, revue et augmantée. Paris: Dusacq 1860. 236p sm red half calf, 17cm, marbled covers, gilt on spine, index, illustrations, sl foxing, otherwise in excellent condition PKM 41125 £40
Paterson, A et al: The Chelsea Physic Garden. London: Chelsea Physic Garden 1980. 30p booklet, map, illustrations, VG PKM 40999 £5.4
Wilson, John M [Ed]: The Farmer's Dictionary, or a Cyclopedia of Agriculture in all its Departments, Principles, Methods, Recent Improvements and Business Affairs. London: Fullarton 1890. 2 Vols 700p each, half calf binding with some minor signs of wear, lacking one panel from one spine and corners rubbed, but binding and text and plates (also in colour) clean and fresh (2 plates of horses show a water margin though), this set was apparent PKM 40169 £75.6
Gault, S Millar : The Dictionary of Shrubs in Colour. London: Bloomsbury 1992. (Royal Horticultural Society) 208p folio hb, dj, many colour plates, VG+ as new PKM 38790 £10.8
Giffard Woolley, R V : Herbaceous Borders for Amateurs. London: Country Life 1926. vii 118p turquoise cloth, frontisp, halftone plates, cover sl grubby, a used ex lib copy, VG- PKM 38656 £5.4
Miall, L C : Round the Year: A Series of Short Nature-Studies. First edition. London: Macmillan 1896. viii 295p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to cover, figures in text, index, cover sl marked, faint traces of humidity at margin of pages, VG+ PKM 38655 £18
Farina, Almo : Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. London: Chapman & Hall 1998. xiv 235p A4 format, cloth binding with orig paper cover on front board, index, illus, VG+, new price 72 pounds PKM 38032 £27
Baker, Kenneth [Ed]: The U C System of Producing Healthy Container-Grown Plants through the Use of Clean Soil, Clean Stock and Sanitation. Riverside: Agricultural Experiment Station 1957. 332p stiff wrapper, index, many photographic plates & illus, VG+ PKM 37979 £9
Johnston, D R ; Grayson, A J : Forest Planning. London: Faber 1967. 541p large green cloth, dj (protected), figures, tables, appendices, glossary, index, VG ex lib copy PKM 36631 £27
Sonnini, C S [Ed]: Bibliotheque physico-economique, instructive et amusante a l'usage des Villes et des Campagnes. 4e annee de souscription, Tome 1. Paris: Buisson 1805. 432p bound in vellum, with decorative leather label on spine, 4 large folding plates, a clean and fine volume, folding plates a bit creased, but without faults PKM 35861 £39.6
Mangon, Hervé : Instructions Pratiques sur la Drainage réunies par ordre du ministre de l'Agriculture. Troisieme Edition. Paris: Dunod 1863. 320p royal blue cloth, gilt on top, profusely illustrated publishers list at beginning, many illus in text, VG+ PKM 34839 £40
Newcomb, Robert : Planning the Past: Historical Landscape Resources and Recreation. Folkestone: Dawson 1979. 255p cloth, dj, printed eps, many figures in text, emphasis for need for preservation, notes, bibliogr, index, VG+ hardly used ex lib copy PKM 34343 £9
Simone, Franco : Eesti Mets, 1989 No 2, 1990 Nos 3 & 4, 1991 Nos 1 & 2. Tallinn: Eesti NSV Riiklik Looduskaitse 1989 - 199. 5 issues, 4 continuous, 64p, 64p, 64p, 64p & 72p stapled, format varies, few plates, half-tone & colour, & figures, few neat markings, VG PKM 34163 £9.9
Lall, E [Ed]: Mets japuu Nos 1 - 6, 1992. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik 1992. 6 issues, 36p, 36p, 40p, 40p, 32p & 28p stapled, c10 articles each with chronicle & summary in Russian (or English in No 6), tables, maps, few half-tone plates, sl spotting to few covers, VG: Silviculture in Estonia PKM 34162 £14.4
Laidler, Keith : Squirrels in Britain. London: David & Charles 1980. 192p hb, dj, appendices, index, VG+ PKM 33572 £10.8
McDowall, Pamela : Pressed Flower Collages and Other Ideas. London: Lutterworth 1971. 112p gilt embossed cloth, frontisp, illus (some colour), VG ex lib PKM 28734 £6.3
McDowall, Pamela : Pressed Flower Pictures: A Victorian Art Revived. London: Lutterworth 1969. 78p gilt embossed cloth, colour frontisp and plates, illus, index, VG+ ex lib PKM 28721 £9
Grebe, Reinhard : Bauen im Garten: Mauern, Treppen, Wege, Plätze. München: Callwey 1965. 88p folio green library buckram, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial study with many plates, ex lib VG+ PKM 28273 £12.6
Staff at Wisley : Hardy Herbaceous Plants for the Garden. Rev ed. London: Royal Horticultural Society 1967. 18p stapled, card cover, 3 plans, alphabetical list of plants, 9 plates, bibliogr, VG PKM 27813 £3.6
Preston, G H : Climbers and Other Plants for Walls. (Reprint from Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society Vol 84 Pt 3). London: Royal Horticultural Society 1959. 24p stapled, blue card cover, 14 plates incl 4 in colour, hardly used PKM 27812 £4.5
Hepburn, John : Crop Production, Poisoned Food and Public Health. London: Crosby Lockwood 1925. (Lockwood's Manuals) xxiv 132p 19cm green cloth, numerous testimonies to worth of book and wisdom of author's farming practices presented as introductory material, 29 half-tone figures & 18 plates, appendices, review copy sent to editor of Hygiene, also incl sheet of his note PKM 23676 £14.4
Hay, Roy : Talks About Gardening. London: Allen & Unwin 1942. 94p 18cm cloth dj (sl wear), VG PKM 23087 £3.6
Clark, Kenneth : Landscape into Art. London: Penguin 1968 etc. 158p paperback, many plates, index, sl worn PKM 19573 £4.5
de Almeida, A Antunes : Os Insectos do Tabaco Armazenado. Lisbon 1956. 120p hb, dj, VG+: based on the work of Brigada de Estudos da Defesa Fitossanitaria dos Produtos Ultramarinos PKM 18279 £10.8
Andrews, Henry : Studies in Paleobotany. New York: Wiley 1961. xii 487p cloth, plates index, bibliogr, VG+ ex lib hardly used PKM 18216 £16.2
Richter, Margarete ; Halbauer, Wilhelm : Gestalteter Raum. Bilder aus Häusern und Gärten. Tübingen: Wasmuth 1949. 208p cloth, transp adhesive film over cover, 200 plates, ex lib with stamp and shelfmark, due to water all pages were previously stuck together at bottom, fault not affecting plates, one minor tear, PKM 17433 £10.8
Woolworth : Good Things to Know for your Home, Garden, Toilet, Hobbies, Office, Pets - Everything. Published 1940. 58p colour paper cover, many illus: Soothing the nerves of cat during air raids, Garotta Compost, etc. The authentic period piece from your supermarket PKM 13553 £10.8
(No Author) : Restauration of Baroque Gardens. Unesco Conference 1995. = Tuinkunst. Dutch Yearbook of the History of Garden Architecture 1996. 175p cloth, dj, many plates, as new PKM 13429 £15
Willis, Peter : Capability Brown in Northumberland. Offprint 1983. (26)p card cover, illus, notes PKM 13407 £7.2
Eastlake, William : A Child's Garden of Verses for the Revolution. New York: Grove 1970. 240p cloth, dj, VG+ 1st Ed PKM 10057 £18
Sweeting, Adam : Reading Houses and Building Books. Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature, 1835 - 1855. New England University Press 1996. x 230p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, notes, illus, as new: Architect and landscape designer PKM 9852 £10.8
Fitter, Alastair : Atlas of the Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe. London: Collins 1978. 272p hb, dj (edges creased), indices, thousands of maps, not ex lib but stamped "withdrawn from stock" PKM 7648 £6.3
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