1977-1979. Illustrated with botanical line drawings and photographs, large octavo, paperbacks, the covers very slightly worn. [ Chinese text, with Latin plant names and some Latin plant descriptions. Contents lists in English. Contains a large number of important papers.]. {A heavy item, extra postage may be required.] View More...
BOTANICAL SOCIETY AND EXCHANGE CLUB. Report for 1943-44, 1945 & 1947-47, in five parts, paperback, very slight signs of wear, one corner slightly bumped, but really very good. View More...
[2000 - 2001]. Two volumes, thick octavo, illustrated, pp 670; 647, very clean internally, paperback, only very slight signs of use. [Articles in French]. {A heavy set - extra postage may be needed]. View More...
One sheet, folded twice, showing 84 colour patches, slight signs of wear or marking, but a good sound copy. (Postage will be much reduced). View More...
Volume 4 number 3, Volume 5 numbers 1 & 2, Volume 6 numbers 1 & 2, in six parts, large octavo, paperback good condition. [A fascinating and erudite collection of articles, such as Coffey's 'Soviet Journals Important for Taxonomic Botany', Woodger's articles on Wilson Popenoe, Stieber's 'Register of Plant Collectors' Field Notes Held in North American Institutions', Johnson's 'Bibliography of Literature on the History of Botany & Botanic Gardens, 1730-1840' etc.] View More...
Illustrated, small quarto, pp vi, 304, green cloth, a very good copy. [Includes "A Bibliographical account of l'Heritier's "Stirpes novae"; John Adlum and William Cobbett; Rev John Laurence - the man and his books; Charles Darwin and the perennial flax; the five brethren of the rose; notes on some portraits of British botanists and gardeners etc.] View More...
A few illustrations, large thick 8vo, pp 477, paperback, a very good copy. [Breeding methods, Genome Organization, Mutagenesis, Breeding for Disease Resistance, Proprietary Rights for New Plant Material, Low-Input and Stress Tolerance in breeding, Genetic Mechanisms for Hybrid Breeding, Applications of Biotechnology to Breeding.] View More...
Ten volumes (of 12 published), small thick octavo, all edges gilt, original cloth, with a full complement of 64 colour printed plates and 55 tinted plates, plus many dozens of text engravings, remarkably clean internally with just the very occasional mark or small stain. The cloth bindings are original, but changed in colour and style during the course of publication and are slightly worn overall; the first five volumes are faded and bleached, the upper cover of Volume XI is stained, the spines of the last five volumes are wrinkled, and Volume VII is slightly weak at the front and rear hinges;... View More...
Sixth edition. Small octavo, pp 32, a little used throughout, a few annotations. paperback, lacking lower cover. The pages, which once were loose, have been recently stapled together. [Early editions such as this are extremely scarce. There are actually two copies here - stapled together !] View More...
A few illustrations, pp xviii, 416, purple cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, a very good copy. [From the library of professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the front endpaper.] View More...
Small slender octavo, pp 52, slight foxing at the rear blanks, otherwise extremely clean internally, cloth backed boards with only very slight signs of wear. A tiny ink initial on the front endpaper. View More...
A few cytological illustrations, slim octavo, pp (43), paperback, a very good copy. Reprinted for private circulation from The Botanical Gazette, Volume 97 number 3. [From the library of the genetecist C.D. DARLINGTON, with his initials and a pencil note on the covers. Cyril Dean Darlington was an English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evolution. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1953 to 1971.] Darlington's research on genetics contributed... View More...
Well illustrated, very large tall quarto, pp viii, 398, pictorial laminated boards. Top edge very slightly marked, otherwise as new. SCARCE. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. [This book is based on extensive fieldwork and collections in the Karoo Basin of South Africa and provides the most comprehensive insight so far into extinct seed plants from the Mesozoic of the southern hemisphere. Large numbers of specimens have been used to delimit species and careful note has been taken of associations between different fossil species. A key feature is the focus on fossil seed plant rep... View More...
Large octavo, pp 573, blue cloth, a very good copy. (Based on the successful Edinburgh Conference, this is "state of the art" taxonomy, with subjects covered such as intellectual property rights, DNA fingerprinting, genetic modification etc.) View More...
Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xiv, 247, a small neat signature to the front endpaper, otherwise clean and sound internally, cloth very slightly worn, spine dull, the binding leaning. View More...
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