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New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1976. [Originally published 1934]. Illustrated, small octavo, pp (x), 275, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. SCARCE . Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Walter J. Johnson Inc., 1975. Facsimile reprint, thick square octavo, a few woodcut illus, pp [20], 408, [Black Letter print], a very good hardback copy. [Conrad Gesner (1516 - 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to… Read more about this item

Ottawa: National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1978. [1978 - 1979]. Three volumes, horizontal octavo, pp 111; 184; 212, clean internally, ringbound paperbacks, the covers slightly worn. [A heavy set - extra postage may be required]. . First Edition. Ringbound paperback. Good.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1967. Sixth printing. Illustrated with simple line drawings, octavo, pp xii, 303, top and fore-edge foxed, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth, the spine slightly faded. From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst. [Euell Theophilus Gibbons, 1911 -… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. New and expanded edition. Illustrated with line drawings throughout, small tall octavo, pp viii, 230, a small bookshop price label on front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, boards in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just a little rubbed and worn. . New and Revised Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1967. Fourth printing. Illustrated with simple line drawings, octavo, pp xvi, 303, very clean internally, cream cloth slightly faded and marked but a good sound copy. From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst. [Euell Theophilus Gibbons, 1911… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1904. New and Revised edition. Small octavo, pp xii, 390, a marginal manuscript X on one page, otherwise internally clean but a bit weak, the front hinge cracked and weak, the pages from the front endpaper through to page xii are in danger of becoming detached, green cloth a bit worn and marked. The rear blank has… Read more about this item

London: Phaidon, 1988. First edition. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 142, (2), the fore-edges very slightly marked and a small marginal stain to the last few pages, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth very slightly bumped near the spine head, in a very good dustwrapper with a slight internal stain. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1948. Illustrated, octavo, pp 410, very clean internally, lacking the front endpaper, the front hinge cracking a little but not at all weak, blue cloth slightly worn, the spine a little creased and age-toned. . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Penguin Books, 1978. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 912, a little age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, paperback,the spine slightly concave, the covers in very good condition. A considerably better-than-usual copy [Originally published in 1931].. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp xx, 486, + 6 page publisher's catalogue, s small tear to the head of the gutter margin of the title page, otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth decorated in gilt, a good copy. From the library of the East Malling Research Stationwith their stamp on the front endpaper and… Read more about this item

London & East Grinstead: The Wine and Food Society [1941 & 1942]. Two volumes, octavo, not illustrated, pp viii, 126; viii, 134, very slightrly used internally, paperbacks, covers slightly marked and worn. From the library of Alan Davidson/. [ [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and… Read more about this item

Ullapool: Pushkin Press, 1999. Foreword by Sir Paul McCartney). Illustrated, tall quarto, pp 98 (+ plates pages), paperback, ringbound, very slightly worn. Limited numbered edition of 1000 copies. [Both a highly personal vegetarian cookbook, and a photographic history of two Sussex families - Hallett and Upton - throughout the world.] ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK WILL BE… Read more about this item

London: Grange Books, 1997. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 144, pictorial boards, a very good copy in dustwrapper. . Boards. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Dorling Kindersley, 1996. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 256, very clean internally, pictorial boards very slightly bruised on the lower corners otherwise in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and just very slightly worn. . Boards. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Widdington, Newport, Essex: The Linden Press, 1940. Pictorial title page with a disected cabbage printed in green, pp 12, quite heavily foxed, the top of the front endpaper has been neatly cut away (probably to remove a signature), green and tan cloth binding in quite bright condition with printed title on its upper cover, the dustwrapper is a little… Read more about this item

Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 2000. Well illustrated, small tall octavo, pp 131, stiff pictorial card covers, slight damage to the base of the first three pages, otherwise a very good copy, with the blind-stamp of Patricia A. Taylor on the title page. [A guide to the truffle cities of Northern Italy.] . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Casale Monferatto: Fratelli Ottavi, 1935. A few illustrations, small octavo, pp xxiv, 448, + 12-page publisher's catalogue, the gathering at pages 51-62 is loose, otherwise clean and good internally, blue cloth very slightly worn, slightly bowed; a duplicate from East Malling Research Station, with their stamp on the front endpaper and a label on the spine. "Sparkling wine" has been… Read more about this item

Lehre: J. Cramer, 1968. Large octavo, pp (8), 591, the front endpapers have owner's signatures, the free front endpaper has an abrasion whih has almost worn through a small area, several small annotations on pages 2 - 5, but none other noted, otherwise clean internally, green cloth in very good condition.. Cloth. Very Good.

Paris: J - B. Bailliere et Fils, 1926. Cinquieme edition. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 464, age-toned, bound in library quarter leather, spine faded, the original paper covers and advertisements are bound in at the end; a duplicate from East Malling Research Station with their stamps on the front endpaper and a label on the spine.. Fifth edition. Quarter leather. Good.… Read more about this item