Plant Hunting from Mike Park Ltd

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.

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

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.

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

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

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949. A small number of illustrations on tinted paper, octavo, pp xxxii, 302, very clean internally, green cloth very slightly marked, the dustwrapper is a little worn and foxed, with several small pieces missing on the margins, a slightly larger peice missing from the rear cover and a small closed tear on the front,… Read more about this item

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

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.

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

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.

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 ettered copies, and presumably limited ti just a handfull thus. [Irish physician, botanist and explorer. He was a member of the… Read more about this item

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.

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

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.

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

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

Baltimore: The National Horticultural Magazine, 1934. An illustrated 22 page article, contained int eh complete issue of The National Horticultural Magazine, July 1934. Also includes articles on Peony, Pines, Eucalypts etc. Paperback, covers sl rubbed and marked but clean internally. . First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Portland: Timber Press, 2000. Fourth printing. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 380, very clean internally, green cloth very slightly shelf-rubbed, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper which is a little faded on the spine. [Dan Hinkley's quest for distinctive plants has led him on expeditions to China, Korea, Nepal, Chile, and remote areas of North America.… Read more about this item

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 231, with six folding charts in the rear pocket, very slightly used internally, paperback, the covers very slightly used and age-toned, the spine a little wrinkled. [Polish collector of insects and plants in Peru. Woytkowski emigrated to Peru in 1929, where he collected more than a thousand insect species new to science… Read more about this item

New York Botanical Garden, 1975. Large octavo, pp (146), paperback, a very good copy. [Memoirs of New York Botanical Garden, Volume 19, number 1. From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his stamp on both covers.] A most useful bibliographic tool, with extensive biographical details of botanists and collectors.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.