Storia naturale

The Ants

Bert Holldobler; Edward O. Wilson · 1990 · Rainy Day Books

$98.50 (€89.37 | £74.56 | ¥15,729)

Book Very Good Very Good Belknap Press USA Clean tight copy, faint finger smudge to lower page corners. Extremely heavy book to ship.

Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop (CEW) Fifty Years 1974-2025 - A History of ecotoxicology in Canada and Future Directions

Craig, Gordon; Scroggins, Rick (Editors) · 2025 · Rainy Day Books

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.55 | ¥12,775)

Book Very Good. Canadian National Acquatic Toxicity Workshop Very clean tight copy.

Illustrations of the Fungi of our Fields and Woods. Drawn from Natural Specimens. [First]-Second Series

Price, Sarah · 1864 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

Published for the Author by Lovell Reeve & Co. London xi, [1-blank], 10 caption leaves; xi, [1-blank], 10 caption leaves, 20 hand-col plates. . HB. 2 vols, large 4to, orig. green cloth with gilt vignette of fungi and gilt title to upper boards, blind-stamped decorative border ...

British Earthstars

Revett, J. · 2026 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

Jonathan Revett 160, 150 col photos + illus. . HB. NEW. . It has been 31 years since the last book was published that comprehensively dealt with the British species of earthstars (<i>British Puffballs, Earthstars and Stinkhorns</i>, Pegler et al., 1995). This book updates this...

The Genus <i>Russula</i> in Great Britain with keys to species

Kibby, G.; Tortelli, M.; Hampe, F.; Soler, C.V. · 2026 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£77.00 (€92.30 | $101.73 | ¥16,245)

G. Kibby 416, 500 col photos, micrographs + illus. A4. HB. NEW. . This book provides the most comprehensive study of this genus in Britain to date. The principal authors, Geoffrey Kibby and Mario Tortelli, are both expert mycologists with considerable field experience. They pr...

Flora of Brecknockshire

Porter, M. · 2026 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Trollius Publications 544, 400 col photos, 43 col illus, 1100 col maps. . HB. NEW. . The first modern Flora of Brecknockshire, Watsonian vice county 42; covering the ceremonial county of Breconshire, now largely in the larger modern county Powys, plus extra land mainly to the ...

Border Collies a Breed Apart: Book One: Secrets of the Working Mind

Price, Carol · 2017 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£28.90 (€34.64 | $38.18 | ¥6,097)

First Stone Publishing. First Edition. Good Condition. Good+ 1st ed 2017 First Stone Publishing paperback, illustrated. Heavy vertical creasing and rippling along title page only, fly-leaf appears to be missing, bright and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under...

The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest & Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century

Hemery, Gabriel; Simblet, Sarah · 2014 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£94.90 (€113.75 | $125.38 | ¥20,021)

Bloomsbury. Edition Unstated. Simblet. New Book. New 2014 Bloomsbury hardback, illustrated, sealed in publisher's original shrinkwrap. Size: quarto. Illustrator: Simblet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 3kg. Category: Natural History & Resources; United Kingdom; I...

THE COMPLETE GARD’NER: or, directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens. Now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements. By George London, and Henry Wise.

Quintinye, Monsieur De la. · 1710 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

London : printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks-Market, 1710. 5th Ed. Corrected. [2],xxxvi,325,[7]p. Frontis., 10 plates including 9 folding (1 with marginal repair). Some browning, ex.-libris Alexander Horton of Lincolns Inn Esq., contem...

VERSAILLES. The History of the Gardens and their Sculpture.

Pincas, Stéphane. · 1996 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Thames and Hudson 1996. 1st UK Ed. 4to. 280pp. 664 ills. including 568 in colour; photos. by Maryvonne Rocher-Gilotte. Good in d/w.

WILDLIFE OF A GARDEN. A Thirty-Year Study. Foreword by Chris Packham.

Owen, Jennifer. · 2010 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Royal Horticultural Society, Peterborogh 2010. 1st Ed. Slim Royal 8vo. [xvi] + 261pp. + [iii]. Profusely illus. with colour photos., maps, plans etc. Very good in black lettered pale grey coloured pictorial laminated boards.

EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER; Being a New and Much More Complete Gardner’s Calendar and General Directory than any one Hitherto Published. Containing not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, and Shrubbery, Nursery, Greenhouse, and Hot-House ... And to the Whole are added, very considerably Improved, and greatly Enlarged, Complete Classical Lists of Kitchen-Garden Plants, Fruit-Trees, Forest and Ornamental ...Green-House and Hot-House Plants, Proper for Cultivation in the English Gardens ...

Mawe, Thomas and Abercrombie, John. · 1813 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; J. Walker; Wilkie and Robinson ..... 1813. 20th Ed. Sm. Thick 8vo. (18 x 12.5 x 5 cms). [iv] + vi + 812pp. Port. frontis. Contemporary ownership inscription dated 1826 to half title, sl. surface loss sl. affecting text to 3 lines on p...

GEOFFREY JELLICOE. The Studies of a Landscape Designer over 80 Years. I. Soundings. An Italian Study 1923-1925. Baroque Gardens of Austria. II. Gardens & Design. Gardens of Europe. III. Studies in Landscape Design.

(Jellicoe). · 1993 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Garden Art Press 1993-6. 1st Ed. 3 vols. 4to. Profusely illus. throughout with photos., drawings, diagrams etc., including 43 in colour. Top edge of leaves lightly spotted, otherwise very good in d/ws. lightly browned to spine of vol. 1.

ENGLISH GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES 1700-1750.

Hussey, Christopher. · 1967 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Country Life Limited 1967. 1st Ed. 4to. 174pp. Frontis., 246 b/w. ills. from photos., 11 diagrams. Bookplate, title page sl. spotted, some sporadic spotting to text and e.ps., original gilt lettered green cloth, boards lightly spotted, in lightly soiled rubbed and chipped d/w....

“ELYSIUM BRITANNICUM” AND EUROPEAN GARDENING. Edited by Therese O’Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Evelyn, John. · 1998 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Dumbarton Oaks Research library and Collection, Washington D.C. 1998. 1st Ed. 4to. [viii] + 310pp. Profusely illus. throughout in b/w. Ex.-libris Hilary McKee, fore edge of half title and title page lightly spotted, occasional pencil annotations, good in d/w. Dumbarton Oaks C...

THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. Trees and Shrubs. Perennials and Annuals. Design by Jill Bryan

Phillips, Roger and Rix, Martyn. · 2002 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Macmillan 2002. 5th Imp. 2 vols. 4to. 491pp. + [i] + 539pp. + [i]. Profusely illus. throughout in colour from photos. Good in d/ws. very lightly faded to spines, together in sl. rubbed gilt lettered green slipcase.

THE HERBAL Or General History of Plants. The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and Enlarged by Thomas Johnson.

Gerard, John. · 1975 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Dover Publications, Inc., New York 1975. Facsimile Reprint of 1733 Ed. Sm. thick folio. [viii] + [xxxviii] + 1630pp. + [ii] + Index. Profusely ills. throughout. F.e.ps. very lightly browned, good in sl. chipped price clipped d/w. faded to spine and sl. waterstained along lowe...

SYLVA 1664. Or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber ... To which is Annexed POMONA, Or an Appendix concerning Fruit-trees, In relation to Cider, ... Also Kalendarium Hortenses; ...

Evelyn, John. · 1973 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Scolar Press 1973. Facsimile Reprint of 1664 Ed., Reprinted. Sm. Folio. [iv] + [xvi] + 120pp. + [iv] + 83pp. + [i] errata. Top edge of e.ps. lightly faded and spotted, ownership ink stamp, edges of leaves spotted, original gilt lettered pale grey cloth with dark blue floral de...

BUTTERFLY LANDSCAPES. A Celebration of British Butterflies Painted in Natural Habitat.

Tratt, Richard. · 2005 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Langford Press 2005. 1st Ed. 4to. viii + 208pp. Numerous colour plates. Sl. rubbed d/w. Inscribed ‘To Vivianne very best wishes from Richard Tratt.’

MR GOULD’S TROPICAL BIRDS. Comprising twenty four plates selected from John Gould’s Folios together with descriptions of the birds taken from his original text edited and introduced by ...

(Gould). Mannering, Eva. · 1955 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Ariel Press 1955. Thin folio. xvipp. text. Many text ills., 24 cold. plates. Some light age toning, original limp card wrapps. with very sm. closed tear to lower edge of upper wrapp., in d/w. with affixed lightly soiled and chupped glacene d/w., couple of closed sm. marginal t...