A beautifully illustrated guide to the ferns of Great Britain, including detailed descriptions of each species, their habitats, and their cultural significance. Features stunning color plates by renowned botanical artist…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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First published in 1843, this book ran to eleven editions, two published posthumously. This technical field guide to the plants of Britain was compiled by Charles Cardale Babington (1808-95), a…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…