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A Plantsman in New Zealand - the story of a 1981 seed collecting expedition into the mountains and forests of New Zealand
by Hutchins, Graham
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- 1984
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Kent: Privately published by the author, 1984. Illustrated with simple line drawings, tall quarto, pp 76, laminated plastic cover with slip-on spine, a very good copy. SCARCE. [A very readable account.]. First Edition. Paperback in folder. Very Good. Item Price
SGD 26.05
Gifts from the Gardens of China - the introduction of traditional Chinese garden plants to Britain, 1698-1862
by Kilpatrick, Jane
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- New
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- New
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- First Edition
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- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780711226302
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SGD 43.41
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London: Frances Lincoln, 2007. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 288, a very good new copy. ["The first plant enthusiasts to reach China found a wonderful array of unfamiliar garden plants that had been nurtured by Chinese gardeners for thousands of years. This is the story of the struggles, the daring and the dogged perseverance of those early collectors. Where would… Read more about this item Item Price
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Frank Kingdon-Ward - the last of the great plant hunters. [James Russell's copy]
by Lyte, Charles
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- As New
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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- Hardcover
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- 9780719547355
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London: John Murray, 1989. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xvi, 218, very clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in a dustwrapper which is just slightly faded on its spine. From the library of the plantsman and garden designer Jim Russell, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. [Frank Kingdon-Ward was the last of a long line… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Naturalist in the Highlands - James Robertson, his life and travels in Scotland, 1767 - 1771
by Robertson, James (edited by D.M. Henderson & J.H. Dickson)
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780707307343
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Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1994. Octavo, pp x, 255, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, in a very bright dustwrapper. Surprisingly scarce. [Alan Roger's copy, with his signature on the front endpaper. Roger owned Dundonnell Estate in the North-west highlands, where he created a notable garden.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
SGD 43.41
Plant Hunting in China - a history of botanical exploration in China and the Tibetan Marches
by Cox, E.H.M.
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- 1945
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SGD 13.02
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London: The Scientific Book Guild, 1945. Illustrtaed, octavo, pp 230, the edges a little foxed, laminated boards slightly worn. . Boards. Good. Item Price
SGD 13.02
Plant Hunters in the Andes
by Goodspeed, T. Harper
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- 1941
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xvi, 429, very lightly bruised at the top corners, otherwise clean internally, cloth faded and very slightly worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Item Price
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Huntia. Volume 4 number 3, Volume 5 numbers 1 & 2, Vol ume 6 number 2.
by Kiger, Robert; Brindle, John V. & Bridson, Gavin D.R. (editors)
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- 1982
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SGD 17.36
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Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1982. 1982 - 1986., A few illustrations, large slender octavo, paperback, very good copies. Includes two copies of the last number. [One issue is completely devoted to Stieber's "Register of Plant Collectors' Field Notes Held in North American institutions. Also included are Woodger's biography of Wilson Popenoe with an inventory of his papers;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Plant Hunting in China - a history of botanical exploration in China and the Tibetan marches
by Cox, E.H.M.
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- 1945
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London: Collins, 1945. Illustrated, octavo, pp 230, clean internally, red cloth a bit marked faded and worn but still firm and sound. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Item Price
SGD 13.89
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker - Traveller and Plant Collector
by Desmond, Ray & Hepper, F. Nigel
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- Very Good
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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- 9781851493050
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Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1999. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 286, green cloth, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing the very slightest signs of wear. . [Sir Joseph Hooker is remembered as an eminent Victorian botanist and one of Charles Darwin's closest collaborators. Many gardeners and lovers of rhododendrons know of his plant collecting expedition in the Himalayas,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tibetan Trek
by Kaulback, Ronald
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- Used - Fair
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- Third edition
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- 1937
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Third edition (and First in this form]. 12mo, pp 319, not illustrated, a little foxing to the early pages and the last, and to the fore-edge, a neat inscription on the front endpaper, grey cloth slightly worn, the spine age-toned and with a bleached mark. [Ronald John Henry Kaulback (1909 - 1995) was a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Francis Masson's Account of Three Journeys at the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775
by Bradlow, Frank R. (introduction and annotations)
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- First Edition thus
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- 1994
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- 9780620185714
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SGD 52.10
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Cape Town: Tablecloth Press, 1994. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 183, very clean internally, paperback, a slight crease to the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy, signed by Bradlow on the main title page. Limited edition of 350 copies. [A re-printing of the first descriptive narrative of the Cape to be written in English; preceded by Bradlow's comprehensive introduction.].… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 52.10
Hunting the Wild Potato in the South American Andes - memories of the British Empire Potato Collecting Expedition to South America, 1938-1939
by Hawkes, J.G.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 2003
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- 9789090180212
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SGD 60.78
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2003. Illustrated, octavo, pp 224, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. With presentation inscription signed by author and pasted to the title page. [Publication funds were raised mainly by commercial potato growers; presumably the book was produced in fairly limited numbers.]. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
SGD 60.78
A Man Who Can Speak of Plants: Dr.Thomas Coulter (1793-1843) of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Alta California [Gren Lucas' copy]
by Nelson, E. Charles & Probert, Alan
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- 1994
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SGD 69.46
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Dublin: Published by the author, 1994. Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, paperback, the slightest signs of use, but really a very good copy. Signed by author on title page, and inscribed to the botanist and conservationist Gren Lucas - "for Gren at the Linnean Society, 15th October 1998". A numbered limited edition of only 500 copies, this… Read more about this item Item Price
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Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants - from the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile, 1776 - 1773
by Hulton, Paul; Hepper, F. Nigel & Friis, Ib
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Slightly Worn
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- First Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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- 9780930606565
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New Haven & Rotterdam: Yale Center for british Art; A.A. Balkema, 1991. Well illustrated with 48 colour plates and many black and white illustrations, small quarto, pp viii, 140, very clean internally, green cloth, the binding leaning very slightly otherwise very good, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Item Price
SGD 52.10
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A Man Who Can Speak of Plants: Dr.Thomas Coulter (1793-1843) of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Alta California
by Nelson, E. Charles & Probert, Alan
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- 1994
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SGD 173.65
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Dublin: Published by the author, 1994. Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, quarter cloth and marbled boards, a really fine copy. Signed by author on title page. A limited edition of only 500 copies, this being A of lettered copies, and presumably limited to just a handfull thus. [Irish physician, botanist and explorer. He was a member of the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 173.65
The Forsters and the Botany of the Second Cook Expedition (1772 - 1775)
by Nicolson, Dan H. & Fosberg, F. Raymond
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- Very Good
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- Second edition
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- 2004
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- Hardcover
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- 9783906166025
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SGD 147.60
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Ruggell/Lichtenstein: A.R. Gantner, 2004. Second edution. Illustrated with just seven plates, thick octavo, pp 759, very clean internally, yelow cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
SGD 147.60
East African Plant Collectors [Gren Lucas' copy]
by Polhill, Diana and Roger
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 2015
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- Hardcover
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- 9781842463710
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SGD 112.87
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Kew Publishing, 2015. Illustrated, tall quarto, pp 520, very clean internally, pictorial boards in very good condition. [Gren Lucas' copy signed by both authors on the title page.]. {This book is a record of some 2,700 people who have collected herbarium specimens in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, designed as a supplement to the now complete Flora of Tropical East Africa.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Carl Peter Thunberg Travels at the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775
by Thunberg, Carl Peter. (Edited by Professor V.S. Forbes)
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- First Edition thus
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- 1986
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- Hardcover
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- 9780620109819
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SGD 47.75
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Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1986. Illustrated with a mounted colour frontispiece, four plates and two folding maps, octavo, pp xlviii, 366, very clean internally, brown cloth, a very good copy. [Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series number 17.]. First Edition thus. Cloth. New. Item Price
SGD 47.75
The Curious Mister Catesby - a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds
by Nelson, E. Charles & Elliott, David J. (editors)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 2015
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- Hardcover
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- 9780820347264
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Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 2015. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp xx, 425, very clean internally, grey cloth, in a very good dustwrapper which has a slight dimple on its upper cover (also very slightly noticeable on the cloth), otherwise a very good copy. Signed by both editors on the title page, and also by two… Read more about this item Item Price
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Voyages of Discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration
by Rice. Tony
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- Used - Very Good
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- Slightly worn and faded
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- First Edition
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- 2000
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- Hardcover
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- 9781902686028
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London: The Natural History Museum with Scriptum Editions, 2000. Very well illustrated, very large quarto, pp 335, brown cloth very slightly faded, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper which is faded around the spine. [A luxuriously produced work, with stunning large-format illustrations. "Voyage of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of some of the most significant and beautiful discoveries… Read more about this item Item Price
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