Acanthophyllum Books

Seven worlds, one planet

Keeling, J., Alexander, S. · 2019

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

BBC Books. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. An engaging account of "natural wonders from every continent".

BlŸtenparadies Eichkogel; Tieleben auf dem Eichkogel

Foelsche, G., Fischer, M., Gerdenitsch, W. · 2005

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

The authors. 2nd edition. Fine. Fine. A natural history of a peak in Austria.

The tropical rain forest

Richards, P.W. · 1966

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Cambridge University Press. 3rd reprint. Fine. Good. Jacket frayed.

Jungles

Lanting, F. · 2005

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Taschen. 2nd edition. Fine. No Jacket. A collection of photographs; minimal text

Deserts: the living dry lands

Oldfield, S. · 2004

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

New Holland. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. Scarcely used.

Rainforest

Oldfield, S. · 2002

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

MIT Press. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. Scarcely used.

Wild America

Peterson, R. & Fisher, J. · 1956

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Collins . 1st UK edition. V.g.. V.g.. Little used.

The families and genera of angiosperms in China

Wu Zhengyi, Lu Anmin, Tang Yancheng, Chen Zhiuan and Li Dezhu · 2003

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Science Press, Beijing. 1st edition. Fine. No Jacket. Includes loosely inserted letter from the senior author.

The romance of natural history

Gosse, P.H. · 0

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

James Nisbet, London. 2n series. Good. No Jacket. Prize bookplate. First signature loose. Frontispiece foxed.

Some account of the design of the trustees for establishing colonys in America

Oglethorpe, J.E.; Baine, R.M. & Spalding, P.(eds.) · 1990

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Univerrsity of Georgia Press. New edition. Fine. Fine. Scarcely used.

History of botanical science

Morton, A.G. · 1981

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Academic Press. 1st edition. V.g.. No Jacket. Bookplate and owner's signature.

Naturalists in the field: collecting, recording and preserving the natural world from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century

MacGregor, A. (ed.) · 2018

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

Brill. 1st edition. Fine. No Jacket. Bookplateof author of chapter 19 (Charles Nelson)

The common scientist in the seventeenth century: a study of the Dublin Philosophical Society

Hoppen, K.T. · 1970

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st edition. V.g.. No Jacket. Bookplate and owner's signature.

Peter Collinson and the eighteenth-century natural history exchange

O'Neill, J. & McLean, E.P. · 2008

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. Bookplate.

The flowering of the landscape garden: English pleasure grounds, 1720-1800

Laird, Mark · 1999

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

University of Pennsylvania Press. 1st edition. New. New. The author's charming watercolour elevations of planting schemes add individuality to a richly illustrated book which is essential reading for those involved in the historical reconstruction of Georgian gardens.

The planters of the English landscape garden

Chambers, D.D.C. · 1993

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

Yale University Press. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. Scarcely used. Bookplate. Jacket sunned towards spine.

King of kings

Anderson, S. · 2025

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Hutchinson / Heinemann. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. An unvarnished account of the last years of the Shah's rule and its chaotic aftermath.

Galapagos, island of birds

Nelson, B. · 1968

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Longmans. 1st edition. Good. No Jacket. Ex-library copy with stamps etc.

Natural history of the Antarctic Peninsula

Moss, S.; De Leiris, L. (ill.) · 1988

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Columbia University Press. 1st edition. Fine. Fine. Scarcely used.

Biosearch Nyika presents expeditions to remote valleys of the Nyika National Park, Malawi, Central Africa

Overton, M.J. · 2000

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Biosearch Nyika, Welbourn. 1st edition. Fine. No Jacket. Scarcely used.