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List 1: South African bulbs and flora
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More information can be found here: Audrey Cain book sale. Don’t forget the other list at List 2: Alpines, other flora and general gardening!
| Book no. | No. bids | Top bid | Book cover _________________ | Summary | Publication | Tags | Media | List Price | Weight | Size | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | £10.00 |  | Gladiolus in Tropical Africa: Systematics, Biology and Evolution by Peter Goldblatt (2003) | Timber Press, Incorporated (2003), 338 pages | bulbs, Gladiolus, Africa | Hardback | £29.99 | 2.4 pounds | 10.61 x 7.75 x 1.1 inches | |
| 2 | 1 | £20.00 |  | Gladiolus in Southern Africa by Peter Goldblatt (1999) | Fernwood Press (1999), Edition: Re-issue, 464 pages | bulbs, Gladiolus, South Africa | Hardback | £29.00 | |||
| 3 | 1 | £15.00 |  | The Moraeas of Southern Africa: A systematic monograph of the genus in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe (Annals of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens) by Peter Goldblatt (1986) | National Botanical Institute (1986), 224 pages | bulbs, Moraea, South Africa | Hardback | £21.95 | |||
| 4 | 1 | £20.00 |  | Bulbous Plants of Southern Africa: A Guide to Their Cultivation and Propagation by Neil Du Plessis (1989) | Tafelberg Publishers (1989), Edition: First Edition | bulbs, South Africa | Hardback | 4.76 pounds | 13.78 x 9.84 x 1.26 inches | ||
| 5 | 1 | £10.00 |  | Grow Bulbs: A Guide to the Cultivation and Propagation of the Bulbs of South Africa and Neighbouring Countries by Graham Duncan | bulbs, South Africa | Hardback | |||||
| 6 |  | Growing South African bulbous plants: A popular guide by Graham Duncan (1996) | National Botanical Institute (1996), 31 pages | bulbs, South Africa | Paper Book | ||||||
| 7 | 1 | £30.00 |  | Spring and Winter Flowering Bulbs of the Cape by Barbara Jeppe (1989) | Oxford University Press (1989), Edition: First Edition, 152 pages | bulbs, South Africa, Cape | Hardback | £36.95 | 2.95 pounds | 13.63 x 9.63 x 0.75 inches | |
| 8 |  | The Color Encyclopedia of Cape Bulbs by John C. Manning (2002) | Timber Press (2002), 486 pages | bulbs, South Africa, Cape | Hardback | £47.95 | |||||
| 9 | 3 | £12.00 |  | The Lachenalia Handbook: a guide to the genus, with introductory notes on history, identification and cultivation, with descriptions of the species and colour illustrations: v. 17 by G. D. Duncan (1988) | National Botanical Gardens (1988), Edition: Annals of Kirstenbosch Botanic, 71 pages | bulbs, South Africa, Lachenalia | Paperback | £9.95 | |||
| 10 | 1 | £5.00 |  | Nerines: A brief guide to growing Nerines in the British Isles by Andrew Eames (2011) | Nerine & Amaryllid Society | bulbs, South Africa, Nerine | Paper Book | ||||
| 11 |  | Grow Nerines (Kirstenbosch Gardening) by Graham Duncan | National Botanical Institute (NBI), 36 pages | bulbs, Nerine | Paperback | ||||||
| 12 |  | Report of the proceedings of a Hardy Nerine Study Day held at RHS Garden, Wisley on 26 October 2007 by John David (August 2008) | Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley, UK | Nerine, RHS, Wisley | |||||||
| 13 | 1 | £5.00 |  | A Revision of the Southern African Genus Babiana, Iridaceae: Crocoideae | South African National Biodiversity Institute | South Africa, Babiana | Hardback | ||||
| 14 |  | Cape Bulbs by Richard L Doutt: (1994) | London: B T Batsford, 1994. (1994) | South Africa, bulbs, Cape | Hardback | ||||||
| 15 | 1 | £10.00 |  | South Arican Beauties: The collection of South African bulbs at Exbury Gardens 2011 by Nicholas de Rothschild (2011) | Nicholas de Rothschild | South Africa, bulbs, Exbury | |||||
| 16 | 2 | £30.00 |  | The Genus Romulea in South Africa, (Journal of South African botany. Supplementary volume) by Miriam Phoebe De Vos (1972) | National Botanic Gardens of South Africa (1972), Edition: First Edition, 307 pages | South Africa, bulbs, Romulea | Hardback | ||||
| 17 |  | The Flora capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne (Brenthurst series) by Jakob Breyne (1978) | Brenthurst Press (1978), Edition: Limited, 218 pages | South Africa, flora, historical | Hardback | ||||||
| 18 |  | A Fynbos Year by Michael Fraser (1988) | David Philip, Publishers (1988), 176 pages | South Africa, fynbos | Hardback | £22.95 | |||||
| 19 |  | The living deserts of southern Africa by David Balfour and others Peter Pickford Text by Dr. Barry Lovegrove; Photographers Anthony Bannister (1993) | South Africa: Fernwood Press (1993), Edition: First Edition, 224 pages | South Africa, habitat, desert | Paperback | £35.00 | |||||
| 20 |  | Namaqualand: A succulent desert by R. M Cowling (1999) | Fernwood Press (1999), 156 pages | South Africa, habitat, desert, Namaqualand | Paperback | £25.00 | |||||
| 21 |  | Fynbos South Africas Unique Floral Kingdom | Cape Town | South Africa, habitat, fynbos | Hardback | ||||||
| 22 |  | Our South African Flora by Robert Harold Compton (1940) | Cape Times Limited (1940) | South Africa, wildflowers | Paper Book | ||||||
| 23 |  | South African wildflower guide 1: Namaqualand by Ted Annelise & Schelpe Le Roux (1994) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1994), Edition: New Ed, 215 pages | South Africa, wildflowers, Namaqualand | Paperback | £11.95 | |||||
| 24 |  | Outeniqua Tsitsikamma & Eastern Little Karoo: South African Wild Flower Guide 2 by Audrey Moriarty (1985) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1985), Edition: 1st Edition, 206 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | ||||||
| 25 |  | Cape Peninsula (South African wild flower guide) by Mary: Kidd (1983) | Claremont: Botanical Society of South Africa 1983. (South African Wild Flower Guides) (1983), 239 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | ||||||
| 26 |  | South African Wild Flower Guide: Transvaal Lowveld and Escarpment i/c Kruger National Park No. 4 by Jo ONDERSTALL (1984) | Botanical Society OF South Africa (1984), Edition: First Edition, 222 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Hardback | ||||||
| 27 |  | South African Wild Flower Guide No. 5: Hottentots - Holland to Hermanus. by Lee und Ann Bean Burman (1998) | Botanical Society of South Africa, (1998), 224 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | ||||||
| 28 |  | Karoo (No. 6) (South African Wild Flower Guide) by David Shearing (1998) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1998), 192 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £19.95 | |||||
| 29 |  | West coast (South African wild flower guide) (No. 7) by John Manning (1998) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1998), Edition: First Edition | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £19.95 | 1 pounds | 8.2 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches | |||
| 30 |  | South African Wild Flower Guide: Southern Overberg No. 8 by Penny Mustart (1997) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1997), Edition: First Edition, 270 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £19.95 | |||||
| 31 |  | South African Wild Flower Guide 9: Nieuwoudtville - Bokkeveld Plateau and Hantam by John Manning (1997) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1997), Edition: 1st ed., 204 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £19.95 | |||||
| 32 |  | Cederberg: Clanwilliam & Biedouw Valley: South African Wildflower Guide 10 (No.10) by G.Van Rooyen (1999) | Botanical Society of South Africa (1999), Edition: 1St Edition, 256 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £19.95 | |||||
| 33 |  | South African Wild Flower Guide: Eastern Cape No. 11 (v. 2) by J. Manning (2001) | Botanical Society of South Africa (2001), 307 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £19.95 | |||||
| 34 |  | Southern African Wildflowers by Dr. John Manning (2005) | Penguin Random House South Africa (2005), Edition: First Edition, 176 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Hardback | £24.99 | |||||
| 35 |  | Wild flower guide: Mpumalanga & Northern Province by Jo ONDERSTALL (1996) | Dynamic Ad (1996), 266 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Hardback | ||||||
| 36 | 1 | £10.00 |  | Wild Flowers of Northern South Africa by Gerrit Germishuizen (1997) | Fernwood Press (Pty) Ltd ,South Africa (1997), Edition: Re-issue, 472 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | ||||
| 37 |  | Wildflowers of the Fairest Cape by Peter Goldblatt (2000) | Timber Pr (2000), 315 pages | South Africa, wildflowers | Paperback | £25.00 | |||||
| 38 |  | Mountain Flowers: Field Guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho by Elsa Pooley | Flora Publications Trust, Edition: First Edition, 320 pages | South Africa, wildflowers, Lesotho | Paperback | £16.95 | |||||
| 39 |  | Flora of Table Mountain in all seasons by Hazel Stokes (1985) | Cape Town : Murray Coombes, c1985. | South Africa, wildflowers, Table Mountain | Paper Book | 14 x 13 cm | |||||
| 40 |  | Table Mountain by Pauw (2001) | Fernwood Press (2001), Edition: First Edition, 160 pages | Table Mountain, South Africa | Hardback | £25.00 | |||||
| 41 |  | The Cape Floral Kingdom by Colin Paterson-Jones (1997) | New Holland (1997), Edition: First Edition, 144 pages | wildflowers, South Africa | Hardback | £29.99 | |||||
| 42 |  | The Smallest Kingdom: Plants and Plant Collectors at the Cape of Good Hope by Mike Fraser (2011) | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2011), Edition: Illustrated, 220 pages | wildflowers, South Africa, historical | Hardback | £40.00 | |||||
| 43 |  | Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning (2008) | Struik Publishers (2008), 508 pages | wildflowers, fynbos | Paperback | £17.99 | |||||
| 44 |  | BULBS FOR THE ROCK GARDEN by Jack Elliott (1995) | Batsford Ltd (1995), 160 pages | alpines, bulbs | Hardback | £8.99 | |||||
| 45 |  | The Genus Cyclamen by Christopher Grey-Wilson (1988) | Timber Pr (1988), 160 pages | alpines, Cyclamen | Hardback | £17.95 | 1 pounds | 9.3 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches | |||
| 46 |  | 126 Bulbs, Corms and Tubers in Colour by Wim Oudshoorn (1974) | Lutterworth Press (1974) | bulbs | Paperback | ||||||
| 47 |  | Autumn Bulbs by Rod Leeds (2005) | B T Batsford Ltd (2005), Edition: First Edition, 160 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £20.00 | |||||
| 48 |  | Bulbs : volume I, A-H by John E. Bryan (1989) | Portland, OR : Timber Press, 1989. | bulbs | Paper Book | ||||||
| 49 |  | Bulbs (Royal Horticultural Society Plant Guides) by Rodney Leeds (1997) | DK (1997), 200 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £7.99 | |||||
| 50 |  | Bulbs (The Pan Garden Plants Series) by Roger Phillips (1989) | Pan Books Ltd (1989), Edition: New edition, 256 pages | bulbs | Paperback | £16.99 | |||||
| 51 |  | Bulbs Volume 2, I-Z by John E. Bryan (1989) | Batsford Ltd (1989), 451 pages | bulbs | Hardback | ||||||
| 52 |  | Buried Treasures: Finding and Growing the World’s Choicest Bulbs by Janis Ruksans (2007) | Timber Press (2007), Edition: First Edition, 460 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £30.00 | 3.25 pounds | 10.6 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches | |||
| 53 |  | Collins guide to bulbs by Patrick M. Synge (1961) | London : Collins, 1961. | bulbs | Paper Book | ||||||
| 54 | Dwarf Bulbs by Brian Mathew (1974) | The Garden Book Club (1974) | bulbs | Hardback | |||||||
| 55 |  | Grow Bulbs (Kirstenbosch Gardening) by Duncan Graham | National Botanical Institute (NBI), 36 pages | bulbs | Paperback | ||||||
| 56 |  | Growing Bulbs by Martyn Rix (1986) | ROUTLEDGE @ (1986), Edition: Revised edition, 160 pages | bulbs | Paperback | ||||||
| 57 |  | Growing Bulbs: The Complete Practical Guide by Brian Mathew (1997) | Batsford Ltd (1997), 192 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £20.00 | |||||
| 58 |   | Growing Dwarf Bulbs (Wisley S.) by Jack Elliott (1988) | Cassell Illustrated (1988), 64 pages | bulbs | Paperback | £3.95 | |||||
| 59 | | How to care for your indoor bulbs & annuals (How to Care for Your Houseplants) by Norman Simpson (1984) | P. Lowe (1984), 80 pages | bulbs | Board book | ||||||
| 60 | | Illustrated Guide to Bulbs by David Papworth | Salamander Press | bulbs | Hardback | ||||||
| 61 |  | Kew Gardening Guide: Flowering Bulbs for the Garden by Brian Mathew (1987) | Harcourt Brace (1987), 128 pages | bulbs | Hardback | ||||||
| 62 | | Mac Ency Bulbs (Macdonald encyclopedias) by Rossella Rossi (1989) | Little, Brown (1989), 256 pages | bulbs | Paperback | £9.95 | |||||
| 63 |   | The book of bulbous plants by H. G. Witham Fogg (1957) | London, Museum Press 1957 | bulbs | Paper Book | 23 cm | |||||
| 64 |  | Pests | Transworld (1995), Edition: Second Edition, 128 pages | bulbs | Paperback | £7.99 | 0.85 pounds | 9.3 x 7.2 x 0.4 inches | |||
| 65 |  | The Complete Book of Bulbs, Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes by Brian Mathew (1995) | Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd (1995), 240 pages | bulbs | Hardback | 2.88 pounds | |||||
| 66 |  | The Gardener’s Guide to Bulbs by Philip Swindells (1994) | Mitchell Beazley (1994), 240 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £19.99 | |||||
| 67 |  | The New RHS Dictionary Manual of Bulbs by Royal Horticultural Society (1995) | Macmillan (1995), 400 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £40.00 | |||||
| 68 |  | The Plantfinder’s Guide to Early Bulbs by Rod Leeds (2000) | David & Charles (2000), 192 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £9.99 | |||||
| 69 |  | The Smaller Bulbs by Brian Mathew (1988) | B T Batsford Ltd (1988), 190 pages | bulbs | Hardback | £19.99 | |||||
| 70 | 1 | £20.00 |  | Calochortus: Mariposa Lilies and their Relatives by Mary E. Gerritsen (2007) | Timber Press (2007), Edition: First Edition, 232 pages | bulbs, Calochortus | Hardback | £22.95 | |||
| 71 |  | Bulbs: The Bulbous Plants of Europe and Their Allies by Christopher Grey-Wilson (1983) | Viking Press (1983), Edition: First Edition | bulbs, Europe | Hardback | £6.95 | |||||
| 72 |  | Fritillaria: A Catalogue of almost 100 Species and Varieties by Kevin Pratt | bulbs, Fritillaria | ||||||||
| 73 |  | The Gardener’s Guide to Growing Fritillaries by Geoff Stebbings (1997) | David & Charles (1997), 160 pages | bulbs, Fritillaria | Hardback | ||||||
| 74 |  | Studies in the Genus Fritillaria (Liliaceae) (Hooker’s Icones Plantarum, 39) by W. B. Turrill and M. Robert Sealy (1980) | Bentham-Moxon Trustees (1980), 280 pages | bulbs, Fritillaria, historical | Paperback | ||||||
| 75 | | Snowdrops and Snowflakes : A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum by F. C. Stern (1956) | Royal Horticultural Society (1956), Edition: First Edition, 128 pages | bulbs, Galanthus, Leucojum | Hardback | ||||||
| 76 |  | The world of Iridaceae: A comprehensive record by Clive Innes (1985) | Holly Gate International (1985), Edition: First Edition, 405 pages | bulbs, Iridaceae | Hardback | ||||||
| 77 |  | Growing Lilies by Derek Fox (1989) | Croom Helm Ltd (1989), Edition: New edition, 272 pages | bulbs, Lilium | Paperback | £9.95 | |||||
| 78 |  | The Lily: For Garden, Patio, and Display by Michael Jefferson-Brown (1988) | David & Charles (1988), Edition: First Edition, 192 pages | bulbs, Lilium | Hardback | ||||||
| 79 | 1 | £5:00 |  | Modern Miniature Daffodils: Species and Hybrids by James S. Wells (1989) | Timber Pr (1989), Edition: First Edition, 170 pages | Narcissus | Hardback | ||||
| 80 |  | Narcissus by John W. Blanchard (1990) | Alpine Garden Society (1990), 203 pages | Narcissus | Hardback | ||||||
| 81 | 1 | £15.00 |  | Bulbs of North America by Jane McGary (2001) | Timber Pr (2001), 251 pages | bulbs, North America | Hardback | £25.00 | |||
| 82 | 1 | £50.00 |  | The Physiology of Flower Bulbs: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Physiology and Utilization of Ornamental Flowering Bulbous and Tuberous Plants by A. De Hertogh (1992) | Elsevier Science (1992), Edition: 1, 812 pages | bulbs, physiology | Hardback | £290.00 | 4.3 pounds | 10.5 x 7.9 x 1.5 inches | |
| 83 |  | Bulbous Plants of Turkey and Iran by Peter Sheasby (2007) | AGS Publications Ltd (2007), 280 pages | bulbs, Turkey, Iran | Paperback | ||||||
| 84 | 1 | £10.00 |  | Corydalis: a Gardener’s Guide by Liden (1997) | AGS Publications Ltd (1997), 140 pages | Corydalis | Hardback | £24.00 |
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