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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Zustand: Very Good. 1759399795. 10/2/2025 10:09:55 AM.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Subjects; Landscape architecture. Landscape architects United States. Landscape architects Great Britain. Gardens United States Design. Gardens Great Britain Design. 1 Kg.

pp.128 with col. photos. 8vo. Bookplate. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. An invaluable and well-illustrated handbook for gardeners with or without specialist knowledge of primulas.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good Condition. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. Boards are rubbed at corners and edges and spine ends. Endpapers lightly tanned with a couple of spots of foxing. Gift inscription (dated 1932) to front free endpaper. 24 full page colour plates by A. E. Jackson - all present. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. The Sunshine Series. Six Tales: How The Tales Came to be Told; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; Sinbad the Sailor; Aladdin: or the Wonderful Lamp; The Sleeper Awakened; The Talkative Barber.

pp. 256 with b/w. photos., and illus. 8vo. Hardback. A good to vg. reading copy.

pp.128 with b/w. & col. illus. 4to. Fine hardback in vg. dw. 'A fascinating survey of the art of herb growing from the tenth century to the present time.' Deals with the period to 1500, then Gardens of Delight, Physic Gardens and from 1915 onwards. Also touches on English Herbals.

pp. 192 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A thor. vg. hardback in same dw. Comprehensive, practical and easy to read.

pp.192 with b/w. photos. and illus. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Originally written by oe of England's foremost experts on bee-keeping, the work of revision and updating was undertaken by a leading member of the British Bee-Keepers' Association.

pp.96 with b/w. photos and illus. A nr. fine softback. 0.0.

pp.96 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A vg. softback.

pp.576 with b/w. frontis. & text illus. throughout. Advertisements to end-papers. 8vo. Hardback. Light spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards in thor. vg. condition. 'Beeton's All about Gardening' consists of an A-to-Z of gardening theory and practice, with articles on specific plants and varieties, seeds for the kitchen garden, techniques of grafting, pests, the storage of fruit, garden buildings and much more.

pp.190 with b/w. photos. and illus. 4to. A vg. softback, gently sunned along spine and top edge of card covers.

pp.176 with b/w. photos. & folding maps. Small 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback. A pocket-size guide book to Norway.

pp.252 with b/w. illus. and 6 page publisher's catalogue. Small 8vo. Hardback. Contents nr. fine. Minor marking to thor. vg. boards. With chapters on The Flower Garden, The Kitchen Garden, Fruit Growing, Pests of the Garden and a Monthly Calendar of work to be done in the garden throughout the year.

pp.[ii], 492 with portrait frontis. of Charles Darwin, full-page illus., illus. in text plus 12-page Minerva Catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Period blind-stamp of W.H. Smith, London to ffep. and neat ownership insc. (dated 1914) to ffep. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original decorated blue cloth binding nr. fine just lightly rubbed to tips. A very pleasing copy. Darwin's Journal of researches, now known as Voyage of the Beagle, was his first book. As Darwin later recalled in his autobiography 'The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career'. With a biographical introduction for Charles Darwin by G.T. Bettany.

pp.200 with 48 colour plates by the author. 4to. Hardback. Some spotting to fore-edges of text-block, to ends and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg. to nr. fine.

pp.xx, 549 with b/w. maps and illus., including 3 fold-out plates, plus 6 page publisher's catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Armorial bookplate of Robert M. Adam (1885-1967), photographer and botanist and his signature to title page. Subsequent owner's stamp to prelims. and fore-edge. Small closed tear to margin of last fold-out map, o/w. contents fine. Original textured cloth boards with black and gilt borders and lettering all in thor. vg. condition. Freeman 279. Each of the three works presented here are prefaced with their own critical introduction by Professor John W. Judd.

pp.492 with full-page illustrations and text figs. 8vo. Hardback. Very minor spotting to fore-edge of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, in vg. plus condition. Freeman 78. Darwin's Journal of researches, now known as Voyage of the Beagle, was his first book. As Darwin later recalled in his autobiography 'The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career'.

pp.200 with 48 colour plates by the author. 4to. Hardback. Charming inscription (dated Chrismas 1950) to ffep. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block edges and occ. to text leaves o/w.contents fine. Original beige coloured boards in nr. fine condition in vg. dw. with a little loss to extremities.