Botanical Rambles by Rev Johns (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publisher's red cloth. Sweet book detailing the author's walks among nature with some lovely illustrations. Covers environments such as, the wood, the mountain, the bog and the hedges. c.1880. Good Condition. Red cloth with gilt vignette to front board. Bright gilt fore-edge. Notable tanning to spine with some fraying and peeling to spine head. Contents are lightly tanned.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. A nicely illustrated Victorian guide to botany. Featuring an illustrated frontispiece. Contains numerous illustrations in the text. With a bookbinder's stamp for S. Curtis to the front pastedown. Rev. C. A. Johns was formerly Headmaster of The Helston Grammar School, Cornwall. In a cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed. Some splitting to the cloth and fading to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Some light foxing to the first few pages but otherwise generally clean. Good. None (illustrator). book. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A charmingly illustrated botanical guide of observations made on the author's rambles. Smartly bound in brown cloth. Delightfully illustrated with eight plates and numerous vignettes in the text. Collated, complete. Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library. A lovely, contemporary glimpse into the botany of the meadow, corn-field, hedge-bank, wood, heath, mountain, bog and sea-shore, as observed on the author's rambles. Written by prolific botanical author Charles Alexander Johns, who also held the post of head master at Cornwall's Helston Grammar School. Smartly bound in brown cloth. Externally, very smart with minimal bumping and rubbing and a few marks. Internally, firmly bound. A generally bright and clean edition with the odd spot and a more sizeable tide mark affecting the last twenty pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …