Riddelsdell H (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp clxxxii, 667. Colour frontispiece; 43 monochrome plates (plates 1 and 2 are missing and appear not to have been bound in; plates 36 and 37 have been inserted upside down). 6 folding maps (2 bound in, 4 in rear pocket). Blue cloth boards, lettered in silver on spine. Speckled edges to text block. Boards lightly rubbed and with a couple of marks; corners bumped. Light toning to half title; mark to lower margin of frontispiece; otherwise pages clean throughout. Folding maps all intact. Binding tight.…

paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. paperback, reprinted from the 'Journal of Botany', paper covers, mildly rubbed at the head and foot of the spine, mild foxing, name of a previous owner at the head of the front cover together with a loosely inserted letter from the author, 88pp.

Condition: Very good. clxxxii, 661, col frontis; 43 plates b/w photos; 6 maps (4 in col in rear pocket). 8vo. HB. Orig. cloth, inner hinge cracked and a little loose between title page and frontis. Vg. 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Fine copy of 1948 edition in dust jacket. Complete with all plates and maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st. 22.0 x 13.5 cm. Pp. clxxxii, 667, colour frontis, other illustrations, 2 maps as part of book, 4 folding maps in rear pocket. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Lower board marked, inner hinges weak, brief owner's details on front pastedown. Atkinson, G. (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only : CONDITION : GOOD : HARDBACK- 1974, grub, discolouration, foxing, scuff marks to jacket, grub/foxing to fore edges, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1948. Very good condition with no wrapper. Phanerograms, vascular cryptograms, charophyta. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Two fold-out maps to text, four maps in pocket inside back cover. B/w plates. clxxxii and 667 pages including index. Boards a little marked. Front hinge pulled. Some pencil annotation else a very nice copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Two volume set. Contains three fold-out maps, one in colour plus 40 b/w. plates to rear. Supplement with col. plates and line drawings. Fine hardbacks in vg. plus and fine dws. respectively.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (I) Flora of Gloucestershire By Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, G. W. Hedley and W. R. Price. Publisher: The Chatford House Press 1974. 667 pages plus numerous plates. (II) Supplement to the Flora of Gloucestershire Edited by Mrs S. C. Holland. Publisher: Grenfell Publications. 1986. 196 pages. Very nice jackets and pages mostly nice and clean. H.22cm W.14cm D.7cm. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition of this work on the flora of Gloucestershire. With two related items by J.H. Burkhill loosely inserted, one being an unpublished proof, both with Burkhill's signature. Also including four loose and two fold-out maps of the geology, rainfall and other features of the district, as well as several photographic plates. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with some light rubbing and marks to boards. Slight wear to spine. Pocket to rear pastedown containing maps. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained at frontispiece. Pages bright and clean. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A first edition of copy of this fascinating and copiously illustrated work on the flora of Gloucestershire: exploring the geology, climate, vegetation, woodlands, agriculture and flora of this abundant county. This work was published by the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, a society devoted to the natural history, geology, archaeology, and history of the Cotswolds, England. Collated complete with forty three plates, a coloured frontispiece plate, and two folding black and white maps. This copy is also complete with four coloured folding maps in the gusset pocket tipped to the rear pastedown. In the publisher's original bright blue cloth binding with gilt title to spine and charming spotted textblock. Externally, minor shelfwear to extremities and slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Front hinge split after frontispiece plate. Prior owner's contemporary ink inscription to front free-endpaper, dated '22 October 1948'. Evidence of plates tipped to pastedowns, now removed. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but bright and clean throughout. The odd light spot to endpapers. Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). book.…