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    Bond, Thomas E.T.   WILD FLOWERS OF THE CEYLON HILLS. £31.00    
      Some Familiar Plants of the Up-country Districts.   240pp. Index. Colour frontispiece and b/w drawings.   Very good indeed in like dw. An outstanding copy.   1953 First edition, Oxford University Press, Madras.
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    Bor, N.L. and Raizada, M.B.   SOME BEAUTIFUL INDIAN CLIMBERS AND SHRUBS. £12.00    
         286pp. Index. 31 attractive coloured plates of paintings, 99 half-tone plates and 154 text-figures.   Internally very good but boards fading and rear hinge weak. Bottom corner has trace of former damp.   1954 First edition, Bombay Natural History Society.
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    Burns, W. (edits).   FIRMINGER'S MANUAL OF GARDENING FOR INDIA. £21.00    
         666pp. Index. The original author lived from 1812 to 1884. T   Very good. Paper browning.   1958 Eighth edition revised, Thacker, Spink, Calcutta and Simla.
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    Coventry, B.O.   WILD FLOWERS OF KASHMIR (Series 1). £25.00    
         101pp + 50 plates + xxxiv pp introduction and index. Each of 50 species described and illustrated with a photograph in colour.   Very good indeed. Inscription.   1923 First edition, Raithby, Lawrence & Co.
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    Cowen, D.V.   FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS IN INDIA. £25.00    
         159pp. Index. 4to. 60 plates in colour of paintings of flowers by the author and numerous drawings of tree shapes. A lovely book.   Very good indeed in dw with loss to top and bottom of spine panel. Inscription..   1952 Second revised edition, Thacker & Co., Bombay.
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    Cox, E.H.M.   FARRER'S LAST JOURNEY. £95.00    
      Upper Burma, 1919-20.   244pp. Index. 28 plates of b/w photographs. Endpaper maps. Account of the plant-hunting expedition on which Farrer died.   Very good in chipped dw.   1926 First edition, Dulau & Co.
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    Dale, Ivan R. and Greenway, P.J.   KENYA TREES AND SHRUBS. £40.00    
         654pp. Index. Folding map. 78 b/w photographs, 110 drawings and 30 colour plates from paintings by Joy Adamson.   Very good indeed. A little light spotting to the fore-edge. Inscription.   1961 First edition, Buchanan's Kenya Estates.
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    Desai, Bhanu L.   POCHA'S GARDEN GUIDE. £16.00    
         176pp 4to. Index.   Internally sound but binding split and boards very grubby.   1948 6th edition, Pocha & Sons, Poona
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    Du Cane Ella and Florence.   THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF MADEIRA. £35.00    
         150pp. 24 tissue-guarded colour plates of watercolours by Ella Du Cane. Decorated white cloth binding.   Very good indeed. Owner's name on front endpaper.j   1909 First edition, A.& C. Black.
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    Farrer, Reginald.   THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. £45.00    
         383pp. Botanical index. Folding map. 16 plates of b/w photographs. Plant-hunting in Western China 1914 and 1915.   A little slack with some spotting, mainly to prelims.   1922 Second impression, Edward Arnold.
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    Fortune, Robert.    A JOURNEY TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA. £12.00    
      With a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains.   398pp. Facsimile reprint of 1852 original. 16 illustrations and a map. Fortune returned from China with more than twenty thousand tea plants for the Himalayan estates. In card covers.   Fine.   1987 Mildmay.
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    Hooker, J.D.   THE FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA £15.00    
      Vol I: Ranunculaceae to Sapindaceae.   740pp. Index. Excellent quality facsimile reprint of 1875 original. No illustrations.   Fine.   No date or publisher given (c1960).
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    Illingworth, John and Routh, Jane (edit).   REGINALD FARRER. £8.00    
      Dalesman, Planthunter, Gardener.   102pp. Card covers. 29 b/w illustrations. 13 essays.   Very good indeed.   1991 First edition, University of Lancaster.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PLANT HUNTING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. £20.00    
         383pp. Facsimile of 1930 original. The North East Frontiers in 1926.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper. Owner's rubber stamp mark.   1974 Reprint, Minerva Press
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   A PLANT HUNTER IN TIBET. £31.00    
         317pp. Index. 19 photographs. Folding map. From Assam into south eastern Tibet.   Very good indeed. A clean, bright copy with a little rubbing to the corners.   1937 Reprint, Cape.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PILGRIMAGE FOR PLANTS. £14.00    
         191pp. Index. 36 b/w photographs. Autobiography. Full bibliography of his books and other publications.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper..   1960 First edition, Harrap.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   RETURN TO THE IRRAWADDY. £68.00    
         224pp. Index. 46 illustrations and a folding map. Plant-hunting in the mountains of North Burma.   Very good indeed in slightly chipped dustwrapper.   1956 First edition, Andrew Melrose.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE. £35.00    
         347pp. 2 maps. 13 b/w photographs. Travels on the borders of Burma and Tibet.   Very good indeed. A lovely copy. Neat inscription on the verso of the frontispiece.   1937 First edition, Jonathan Cape.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE. £14.00    
         347pp. 2 maps. 13 b/w photographs. Travels on the borders of Burma and Tibet.   Front endpaper removed and front hinge slack. Inscription.   1938 Second impression, Jonathan Cape.
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    Lancaster, Roy.   PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. £10.00    
         194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Paperback edition.   Very good. Corners scuffed.   1983, Croom Helm.
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    Lancaster, Roy.   PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. £10.00    
         194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation.   Fine in slightly faded dw.   1981 First edition, Croom Helm.
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    Lancaster, Roy.   TRAVELS IN CHINA. £72.00    
         516pp. Index. 413 illustrations in colour, 253 in b/w. Endpaper maps. Includes short biographies of the early plant collectors. Signed by the author and inscribed by him 'For Colonel G.Gibbs a well known friend of trees with best wishes'. Postcard from Lancaster to Gibbs loosely inserted.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 First edition. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge.
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    Lancaster, Roy.   A PLANTSMAN IN NEPAL. £31.00    
         291pp. Index. Map. 266 colour photographs and 73 in b/w. A lovely new edition. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. A long mountain circuit in Eastern Nepal. Interesting on the places and the plants.   Fine in fine dw.   1995 First thus, Antique Collector's Club.
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    Lancaster, S. Percy.   GARDENING IN INDIA. £16.00    
         385pp. Photographs in b/w. Revised by T.K.Bose and D.Mukherjee.   Very good in rubbed dw.   1972 Revised edition, Oxford & IBH Publishing, India.
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    Lancaster, Sydney Percy.   A SAHIB'S MANUAL FOR THE MALI. £12.00    
      Everyday Gardening in India.   227pp. Index. Drawings. Edited from his monthly bulletin, 'Garden Chat' from 1949-51.   Fine in fine dw.   2005 New edition, Permanent Black, New Delhi.
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    Lyte, Charles.   FRANK KINGDON-WARD. £13.00    
      The Last of the Great Plant Hunters.   218pp. Index. 26 b/w illustrations and 2 maps.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 First edition, John Murray.
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    Musgrave, Toby et al.   THE PLANT HUNTERS. £10.00    
      Two hundred years of adventure and discovery around the world.   224pp. Index. Colour illustration. Chapters on Hooker, Fortune, Wilson, Forrest and Kingdon-Ward.   Fine in near-fine dustwrapper.   1998 First edition, Ward Lock.
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    Nairne, Rev Alexander Kyd.   THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF WESTERN INDIA. £31.00    
         401pp. Index. In the original green cloth. There are no illustrations.   Very good binding but the original owner has made neat notes on several pages.   No date (preface dated 1894) First edition, W.H.Allen.
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    North, Marianne.   A VISION OF EDEN. £10.00    
      The Life and Work of Marianne North.   240pp. Full colour reproductions of her paintings from Kew. Includes lovely work from a visit to India in 1876-79.   Owner's name. Otherwise fine in fine dw.   1980 First edition, Webb & Bower.
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    Parker, R.N.   A FOREST FLORA FOR THE PUNJAB WITH HAZARA AND DELHI. £40.00    
         591pp. Index. No illustrations. Compiled for the use of Forest Officers.   Very good. Front hinge slack but holding.   1924 Government Press, Punjab.
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    Pearse, Arno S.   THE COTTON INDUSTRY OF INDIA. £18.00    
         306pp, 26pp advertisments. 27 b/w photographs. Appendix listing the cotton mills of India and their production.   Very good indeed. An excellent copy.   1930 International Cotton Federation.
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    Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam.   FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYAS. £25.00    
         580pp with 365 drawings and 690 colour photographs. Index.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1984 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam.   FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYAS. £16.00    
         518pp with 365 drawings and 690 colour photographs. Card covers.   Very good.   2001 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam.   FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYAS. £27.00    
         518pp with 365 drawings and 690 colour photographs.   Fine in fine dw.   1985 Reprint, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam.   CONCISE FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYA. £28.00    
         283pp with 315 drawings and 996 colour photographs.   Fine in near-fine dw.   1987 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Polunin, Oleg and Stainton, Adam.   FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYA and FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYA: A SUPPLEMENT. £45.00    
         In 2 vols. 518pp with 365 drawings and 690 colour photographs, 86pp with over 600 new colour photographs.   Fine in fine dustwrappers.   1988 Reprint and First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Randhawa, M.S.   FLOWERING TREES IN INDIA. £12.00    
         210pp. Index. 4to. 38 colour illustrations of paintings. Tables of information about species and the suitability of their planting.   Poor. A complete working copy with minor worming and damp damage in top inner corners. Plates sound.   1957 First edition, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
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    Santapau, H. Et al (edit).   J. SEN MEMORIAL VOLUME. £36.00    
         500pp. Over 50 botanical papers and essays. Plates in b/w.   Very good in very good dw.   1969 Botanical Society of Bengal, Calcutta.
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    Singh, Chetan.   NATURAL PREMISES. £26.00    
      Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalayas 1800-1950.   252pp. Index.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1998 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
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    Sinha-Kerkhoff, Kathinka.   COLONISING PLANTS IN BIHAR (1760-1950) £24.00    
      Tobacco Betwixt Indigo and Sugarcane.   464pp. Index. Photographs in b/w.   Fine.   2014 Partridge, India.
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    Smythe, F.S.   THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS. £12.00    
         322pp. Index. Folding map. With 16 tissue-guarded colour photographs. Climbing, botany and exploration in Garhwal.   Very good. Front board slightly marked.   1938 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    Smythe, F.S.   THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS. £12.00    
         322pp. Index. Folding map. With 16 tissue-guarded colour photographs. Climbing, botany and exploration in Garhwal.   Very good. Extremities a little rubbed. Owner's name from 1938.   1938 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    Titley, Norah and Wood, Francis.   ORIENTAL GARDENS. £10.00    
         128pp. Index. 122 illustrations in colour and b/w from books and manuscripts in the British Library. Sections on Turkey, Persia, India, China and Japan. Card covers.   Fine.   1991 The British Library.
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    Titley, Norah and Wood, Francis.   ORIENTAL GARDENS. £12.00    
         128pp. Index. 122 illustrations in colour and b/w from books and manuscripts in the British Library. Sections on Turkey, Persia, India, China and Japan.   Owner's name. Otherwise fine without dustwrapper.   1991 First edition, The British Library.
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    Titley, Norah and Wood, Francis.   ORIENTAL GARDENS. £18.00    
         128pp. Index. 122 illustrations in colour and b/w from books and manuscripts in the British Library. Sections on Turkey, Persia, India, China and Japan.   Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.   1991 First edition, The British Library.
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