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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. For those who love the garden, it is not just about planting and growing, but about collecting garden-themed china, painting orchids and violets, visiting botanical gardens, reading and repairing rare horticultural books, competing in shows, and dreaming about the garden all winter long. In a book that celebrates the particular passion--perhaps 'obsession' is a more accurate term--of the gardener's life, Laurence Sheehan (with Carol Sama Sheehan, Kathryn George Precourt, and photographer William Stites) presents a diverse array of treasures that will delight every garden lover. In this select society, everyone understands why a collection of colorful seed packets could grow to fill many rooms, why one species of plant could preoccupy a lifetime, and why those with concrete patios as well as acres of ranch land could share a vision. In the first section, 'Inspired Plantsmen,' 'The Gardener's Life' introduces a group of people whose passion focuses on the plants themselves--growers of herbs and roses from Connecticut to California who have spent lifetimes devoted to their favorite plants. 'Passionate Collectors' presents aficionados of garden books, garden watercolors, garden ornaments, and even well-worn, much-used, and lovingly restored antique lawn mowers. Finally, whether they possess a desire to throw the perfect flowerpot or to create a miniature yard on a city terrace, the free spirits in 'Singular Visions' offer new ways of looking at, and loving, the garden--demonstrating that each garden and each gardener who tends it is unique. Mixed among the stories of these individuals are photographic 'excursions'--visits to flower shows and wildflower gardens that illustrate how vastand varied the gardener's world truly is. More than a how-to gardening book, 'The Gardener's Life' works its way to the heart of why gardeners have unlimited fascination with their pastime, and why the garden is a place where art and nature, technique and toil--not to mention joie de vivre--meet to create paradise. Just as they explored dog shows, breeders' farms, and pug figurines in 'Living with Dogs,' this bestselling team of authors captures the essence of the gardener's passion through this pictorial visit to gardens, flower painters, photographers, and events in 12 states. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.

Paperback. Condition: New. Cg, Danilo (illustrator).

Société Entomologique de France, Paris - 1995, in-8, broché, pages 325-436 (sommaire en photo) Bon état - Pour les envois hors de France, la tarification «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.

Condition: Very Good. [vi], 12, 34, 68, . . PB. Vg. Text Italian. Checklist to the Italian species of Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Bruchidae and Curculionoidea. [9788870198911].

12 p - 22 figs.

3 p.

28 p - 38 figs - 1 colour plate.

Condition: New. 80, 5 colour plates, distribution maps. 250x176mm. PB. NEW. . Text French. Covers a tribe of Cerambycids found mainly in Africa. [9782353870042].

Condition: Fine. 173, 36 colour plates (729 figures). 300x210mm. HB + Slipcase. Fine in d/w and slipcase. First of a series of 5 volumes. Future volumes will cover: Northern Africa; Atlantic Islands; Southern Europe; Eastern Mediterranean. Subscription orders may be placed for the series.Photograph of each species (typical male), plus female / forms, where polymorphism occurs. Species information: range, biology, host plants, flight period, taxonomic notes, variability. Original keys to species for some genera. 3 new taxa described. [9788086447070].

Condition: New. Iorio, Alfonso; Degiovanni, Augusto (illustrator). 435, 29 colour plates (600 specimens), 649 figs. 310x210mm. HB. NEW. . Text English. Second of a series of 5 volumes (Vol. 1 was published in 2002). Photograph of each species (typical male), plus female / forms, where polymorphism occurs. Species information: range, biology, host plants, flight period, taxonomic notes, variability. [9788889327166].

Condition: New. 173, 36 colour plates (729 figures). 300x210mm. HB + Slipcase. NEW. . First of a series of 5 volumes. Future volumes will cover: Northern Africa; Atlantic Islands; Southern Europe; Eastern Mediterranean. Subscription orders may be placed for the series.Photograph of each species (typical male), plus female / forms, where polymorphism occurs. Species information: range, biology, host plants, flight period, taxonomic notes, variability. Original keys to species for some genera. 3 new taxa described. [9788086447070].

The first in a series of five planned volumes covering the cerambycidae of Europe and the Mediterranean. This volume covers the area between Scaninavia and the British Isles, and continental Europe from France (excluding Corsica) to northern Europe. Species information includes range, biology, host plants and flight material. Zlín. Kabourek. 173 pp., 36 color plates with 729 photographs, linen bound 4 [with dust jacket in slip case].

173 p., several figures, 36 coloured plates, cloth (dust jacket), in printed slip-case. Library stamps, else very good copy.