Flora of County Kerry. Including the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characeae &c.. With Six Plates and a Map. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1916. First edition. Pp Lxxi, 406, uncut. Rebound in smooth green cloth, marron title lables stamped in gilt to spine. A very good copy.

Presentation copy, inscribed by the Author on half-title “Miss Delap, with thanks for help in field work, Reginald W. Scully, Dec. 1916.”

Scully’s Flora of Kerry was the last major contribution to Irish floristics until the publication of ‘The Botanist in Ireland’ eighteen years later (R.L. Praeger, 1934). Contains a lengthy introduction and bibliography (of works containing references to the flora of Kerry), followed by the main body of text.