Henslow Rev Professor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In good bright red cloth boards, gilt titles to front and back strip. The covers are a little loose, quite straight, with a few marks and spine ends and corners a little bumped. Pretty green and white daisy pattern for end papers and quite clean. Dark tinted top cut edge; the fore and tail edges are slightly tanned. The text bock is quite firm and square, tanned, especially around the edges. With name and date on half title page. With 46 b/w illustrations. Good minus condition. Advertisements to rear. Without jacket. Price reflects condition.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Size 6" x 3¾", 249 pages including index. Blue cloth covered boards. The front cover is decorated with lovely black stamped wild flowers with title in border in centre. Gilt titles and picture of a snowdrop on the spine and publisher's motif and Library of Useful Stories banner in black on the back cover. Condition very good, spine a little faded and grubby, corners, cover and spine edges rubbed, contents clean. With Fifty-Six Figures in Text (illustrator).…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is an accessible guide to the wild plants of South Africa, written to encourage people to learn about the natural world around them. The book describes the structures of native plants, their habits, and how they are adapted to their environment. The author shows how every plant is adapted to its position in life and how it has acquired the characteristics that distinguish each kind. Individual chapters focus on pollination, the structures of flowers, their classification, and the adaptations plants have for surviving in hot, arid conditions. The author's enthusiasm for his subject is evident throughout, and his writing is clear and engaging. This book will appeal to anyone interested in botany, ecology, or the natural beauty of South Africa. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. shelf wear, some cocking, blue cloth whit black decor. S1 2. Sketches (illustrator).

pp. xii, (13)-189, (i), 2 Advertisements. 46 text figures. Original cloth, a bit faded, else a very good copy.

Gilt-decorated Green Cloth. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Published. xii, 318pp, 4pp publisher adverts, illustrated with colour plates by Grace Layton, frontispiece with tissue, text pages quite heavily foxed, plates don't appear to be affected, floral patterned endpapers, hinges starting to split, ink signature and address to half title, green cloth with bevelled edges, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and illustration to upper board, corners and spine ends rubbed. Size: 8 x 5.25 Inches. Grace Layton (illustrator). Plants.…

3 pp, 4to. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of stub adhering to the blank reverse of second leaf. The year 1832 has been added in pencil in a contemporary hand. The letter is on paper watermarked 1831. Docketed at head 'Braybrooke Ld.' He begins by informing Henslow that Lord Grenville has lent him 'the Book in which his Notes upon the growth of Trees, during many years, had been made. He assures me that nothing worth your notice will be found among the MS remarks, but I am not of that opinion. Ld G is however very fond of the book as of an old acquaintance, & the entries if once lost can never be replaced, as no other Copy exists.' He feels 'very responsible' for the volume, but does not 'hesitate to entrust it to you knowing that you will lock it up & return it by a safe messenger'. The Braybrookes are 'stationary' at Audley End, and will be happy to see Henslow, if he wishes to return the volume in person. 'I have also a large specimen of lilac wood at your service, should you not have one already.' He is enclosing 'a paper which I copied from a loose MS document in my Evelyn's Sylva'. He ends the letter with a report of the fruit-bearing properties of Dr Clarke's mulberry tree: 'the indented leaves were also all on the lower part of the tree only, those above being all apparently of the common species'. In a postscript he reports that he has 'received no answer from Mr Blackie about the pruning system, perhaps he is afraid of entering the lists with you Cambridge Professors! ! !' The Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834), Baron Grenville, planted at least 2500 trees at Dropmore House, and at the time of his death his pinetum contained the largest collection of conifer species in Britain.…