C. Arden, Bookseller Darren Bloodworth The Nursery, Forest Road, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DT, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1497-820471 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ardenbooks.co.uk Catalogue No. 115 – Sale & Special Offers Sale items : Botany 1 - 71 Entomology 72 - 106 Fine, Illustrated & Antiquarian 107 - 116 Gardening 117 - 172 General 173 - 207 Natural History & Zoology 208 - 258 New Naturalist s 259 - 284 Ornithology 285 - 336 Special offers : Botany 337 - 413 Entomology (incl. Beekeeping) 414 - 447 Gardening 448 - 482 Natural History & Zoology 483 - 550 New Naturalists 551 - 592 Ornithology 593 - 642 The stock in the Sale part of this catalogue (items 1 to 336) is an attempt to clear the remains of stock from the year’s previous catalogues. Book prices have already been reduced in many cases and further reductions are available to those who wish to take a risk that their chosen books will be available 10 or even 20 days after receiving this catalogue. Books will be dispatched once orders are complete – this may take up to three weeks if you order books at 50% off. How the Sale works First 10 days of sale…….All books available at prices shown in the catalogue After 10 days……………..If books are still available, we reduce their prices by 25% After 20 days……………..If books are still available, we reduce their prices by 50% We have also included just over three hundred Special Offers at the end of the catalogue (items 337 to 642). These Special Offers are available at the prices indicated and are not part of the Sale terms. Books can be ordered using the order form enclosed, by telephone, email or letter. For Sale books, please indicate your price preference when ordering (full, 25% off or 50% off). We number and date orders so that the first customer to order a book/s at reduced prices will be successful if the book is unsold after the first 10/20 days. We accept debit and credit cards, bank transfers, cheques and Paypal. We do not accept American Express. Postage on books is charged at cost. We are always interested in purchasing large or small collections in our specialist subject areas and are quite happy to travel to view. Abbreviations Vg very good t.e.g. top edges gilt pp pages Dw dust wrapper illus. illustrations f.e.p. front end paper o/w otherwise nd no date a.e.g all edges gilt b/w black & white sl slightly sfbk Softback July 2018 Sale section - Botany 1. Arber, E.A. Newell. Devonian Floras A Study of the Origin of Cormophta. 1st. Pub. C.U.P. 1921 pp.xiv, 100 with text illus. Covers a little marked o/w. vg. hdbk [35191] £30.00 2. Baker, Col. H.A. & Oliver, E.G.H. Ericas in Southern Africa. 1st. Ed. Pub. Purnell. 1967 pp.xxi, 180 with 166 colour illus. Scattered foxing to fore-edges of text block, not affecting contents which are in fine condition. Hdbk. in vg. dw., a little rubbed in places. [27816] £30.00 3. Baxter, Travor. The Eternal Yew. 1st. Ed. Pub. Self Publishing. 1992 pp.192 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw., gently sunned on spine. [53068] £12.00 4. Bean, W.J. Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles. Volume III. 8th. Ed. 5th. Imp. Rev. Pub. John Murray. 2000 pp.xvi, 973 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A fine hdbk. in fine dw. [50907] £60.00 5. Beckett, Kenneth & Gillian. Planting Native Trees and Shrubs. 1st. Ed. Pub. Jarrold. [c.1979] pp.64 with colour photos. and dist. maps. Royal 8vo. Name to verso of front cover. A thor. vg. softback. [53074] £24.00 6. Carrington, S. Wild Plants of Barbados. Pub. Macmillan. 1993 pp.viii, 128 with colour photography. VG. softback. [33160] £10.00 7. Church, A.H. Thalassiophyta and the subaerial transmigration. Pub. Oxford University Press. 1919 pp.95. VG. in lightly marked and chipped covers. Softback. [35161] £35.00 The 12 chapters of this book address ‘The origin of land-flora’, ‘The hypothetical landward migration’, ‘The origin of the archegonium’, ‘The possibility of direct progression from the sea’, ‘The culmination of marine phytobenthon’, ‘The mark of the transmigrant’, ‘What probably happened’, ‘The triple sequence, plankton, benthon, xerophyton’, ‘The story of the survivors’, ‘Bryophyta’, ‘Pteridophyta’ and ‘The algae of the transmigration’. 8. Coed Cymru. Woodland Owners Handbook. Pub. Coed Cymru. [c.2000] pp.43 with b/w. illus. 8vo. A thor. vg. softback. [53358] £12.00 9. Connold, Edward T. British Vegetable Galls. An introduction to their study. 1st. Ed. Pub. Hutchinson. 1901 pp.xii, 312 with b/w. photos. 4to. A thor. vg. hdbk. in original boards. [50836] £22.00 10. Cowan, J. Macqueen. (Ed.). The Journeys and Plant Introductions of George Forrest. 1st. Ed. Pub. O.U.P 1952 pp.xi, 252 with plates and folding map. Some neat annotations to text in pencil and old invoice for this book pasted to rear turn-in of dw. A two page plant list had been stapled to the ffep. Hardback in thor. vg. condition in chipped dw., with some loss. [30826] £30.00 11. Davidian, H.H. The Rhododendron Species. Vol. II - Elepidote Species. 1st. Ed. Pub. Batsford. 1989 pp.344 with colour & b/w. photography. Top corners lightly bumped and dw. spine lightly sunned. Overall vg. hardback. [31907] £18.00 12. De la Bathie, H., Perrier. Flora of Madagascar. (Vascular Plants). 49th Family - Orchids Volumes I & II. Pub. Humbert. 1981 pp.x, 542 with line drawings. Two vols. bound as one. Fine hdbk. [34664] £100.00 13. Dony, John G. Flora of Bedfordshire. 1st. Ed. Pub. Luton Museum. 1953 pp.532 with photography and distribution maps. A fine hardback in fine dw., showing some darkening in places. [28868] £15.00 14. Dr. Palla. Atlas der Alpenflora. Herausgegeben vom Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenverein. Pub. Lindauer’schen Buchhandlung. 1897 Five volume set. Small 8vo. Hardbacks bound in green cloth. Fine condition. [34341] £220.00 With 500 full page plates of colour illustrations. Flowering dates for each plant provided. 15. Dresser, C. The Rudiments of Botany. 2nd. Ed. James Virtue. 1860 pp.xxiii, 433 with text figs. Internal hinge showing some wear. Some wear to covers particularly top of spine. Contents clean. Some spine lean. Good working copy. [35154] £150.00 16. Farrer, Reginald. Alpines & Bog Plants. 1st. Ed. Pub. Arnold. 1908 pp.288 with b/w. plates. Hardback. Several neat annotations in pencil to text. Original binding in thor. vg. condition. [31914] £30.00 17. Farrer, Reginald. The Sundered Streams. The History of a Memory that had no Full-stops. 1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1907 pp.399 plus 16-page publisher’s adverts, dated January 1907. 8vo. Hardback. Light foxing to paste-down and title, o/w. contents in fine condition. Some spine lean. Original black cloth boards, with gilt lettering showing some light wear to spine, lightly shelf rubbed, o/w. in vg. condition. Scarce. [43044] £250.00 Sale section - Botany Reginald Farrer was a plant hunter & botanist, traveller, flower painter and author. Alongside the large number of books he had published recounting his travels, plant collecting and gardening, he was also the published author of several novels which upon their review, received much praise. 18. Farrer, Reginald. The Ways of Rebellion. 1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1908 pp.319 plus 2-page publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Very minor amount of foxing, o/w. contents in fine condition. Neat inscription in pencil to ffep. Some spine lean. Original black cloth boards in thor. vg. condition. Scarce. [43046] £150.00 19. Fenderson, G.K. A Synoptic Guide to the Genus Primula. 1st. Ed. Pub. Allen Press. 1986 pp.v, 213 with illus. Hardback. A thor. vg. copy in thor. vg. dw. Presentation copy, signed by the author. [28221] £20.00 Comprises taxa, cultivation and growing technique information, pests, illustrations and more. 20. Fisher, F.H. Reginald Farrer. Author, traveller, botanist and flower painter. 2nd. Ed. Pub. Alpine Garden Society. 1933 pp.38 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A vg. hdbk. in nr. vg. dw. [51113] £12.00 21. Forsyth, A.A. British Poisonous Plants. Bulletin No. 161. 1st. Ed. Pub. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. 1954 pp.vi, 111 with b/w. photos. Tall 8vo. Marks to rear cover o/w. vg. softback. [51137] £12.00 22. Friis, E.M. et al. The Origins of Angiosperms and their biological consequences. 1st. Ed. Pub. CUP. 1987 pp.x, 358 with figs. VG. [33352] £30.00 23. Goodfellow, M. et al. The Biology of Actinomycetes. Pub. Academic Press. 1984 pp.x, 544 with plates and figs in text. VG. Hardback. [35004] £50.00 24. Graham, G.G. The Flora and Vegetation of County Durham. 2nd. Ed. Pub. Durham Flora Committee. 1988 pp.vi, 526 with some colour illus. and many dist. maps. 4to. Hdbk. Fine in nr. fine dw.. [17100] £24.00 25. Grindon, L.H. The Manchester Flora. 1st. Ed. Pub. William White. 1859 pp.viii, 575. Hardback. Bound in half calf leather with marbled boards which show rubbing in places. Neat ownership inscription dated 1859 to ffep. Contents very clean. A vg. copy. [26724] £60.00 26. Guarino, L. et al. Collecting Plant Genetic Diversity. Technical Guidelines. Pub. CABI. 1995 pp.xx, 748. VG. Hardback. [35178] £75.00 The first work of its kind to provide collectors of plant germplasm with generic as well as specific, and theoretical as well as practical, information. This comprehensive work would be useful to new and experienced collectors, as well as those interested in plant genetics, breeding and biodiversity.