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By: N/A
Price: £4.50
Publisher: New Delhi, Centre for Science and Environment: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001944
Condition: Good
Illustrated with monocrome photos and line drawings, 4to, pp xvii, 393, (v), laminated boards, slightly worn and rubbed, base of board spine cracking but held together by the cellaphane layer of the laminated board, internally sound and tight, slight scuff on the rear pastedown endpaper. View more info
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015586
Condition: Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 136, a map at the rear, fore-edge foxed, also affecting the first few pages and the last page, otherwise clean internally, original pale brown cloth, faded dull and a little marked, the spine age-toned, the covers very slightly bowed. [The scarce first edition. From the library of the botanist Frank White, with his signature on the front endpaper.] View more info
By: Beurdeley, Michel; Schipper. Kristofer; Fu-Jui, Chang & Pimpaneau, Jacques
Price: £27.50
Publisher: Fribourg & London, Office du Livre, and Hammand, Hammond & Company: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013230
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, including many mounted colour plates, folio, pp xiv, 209, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing very slight signs of age-toning. In the original plain card slipcase. [A heavy book - extra postage may be required]. View more info
By: Bews, J.W.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010526
Condition: Good
Small 8vo, pp xii, 312, cloth very slightly worn, faded on the spine, binding leaning, but otherwise very clean and sound. View more info
By: Brass, L.J.
Price: £12.50
Publisher: New York, American Museum of Natural History: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 015480
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, slim quarto, pp (70), upper corners very slightly bruised, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [Originally a presentation copy from the author to the botanist A.H.G. Alston, but this crossed out and now with the signature of another British Museum botanist Eric Groves.] View more info
By: Brongersma, L.D. & Venema, G.F.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1962
Edition: First UK edition
Seller ID: 014122
Condition: Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp 318, slightly used throughout, fore-edge a little age-toned, traces of a label removed from the front endpaper, grey cloth very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and shortly smaller than the book. [An account of an anthropological expedition to Dutch New Guinea.] View more info
By: Brothwell, Don & Higgs, Eric (editors)
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1969
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 013959
ISBN: 0500270104
Condition: Good
Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp 720, very clean and sound internally, paperback, upper cover a little scuffed, spine creased. Professor Jack Hawkes copy, with his signature on the front endpaper. Very heavy - extra postage may be needed. [A stimulating collection of papers.] View more info
By: Brothwell, Don (edited by)
Price: £6.50
Publisher: London, Eugenics Society: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001758
ISBN: 0900490098
Condition: Very Good
8vo, pp. viii, 296. paperback, slightly worn. (This collection of essays is an attempt to show the various ways in which biological aspects of man are linked with social man.) View more info
By: Brower, Kenneth
Price: £8.50
Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Earth:
Seller ID: 002651
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated with stunning photographs,and with many poems from a variety of authors, folio, pp 188, a good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper, Anthony Huxley's copy, with his ownership stamp. This book will be heavier than average to post - extra charge may be needed.. [ A beautiful account of nature and of Inuit life in the tundra and ice of North America.] View more info
By: Collinder, Bjorn
Price: £6.00
Publisher: New York, Princeton University Press for the American Scandinavian Foundation: 1949
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009697
Condition: Fair
Illustrated, pp (6), 252, fore-edge marked, slightly worn and marked internally, foxing and browning to the early pages, blue cloth blotched and a little worn. Signature of the botanist Frank White on the front endpaper. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 1977
Edition: First UK edition
Seller ID: 014058
ISBN: 0713906715
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxii, 423, very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is a little worn and torn. [A classic year-long study of the Mnong Gur tribe, in the remote village of Sar Luk, two hundred miles north of Saigon.] View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1957
Seller ID: 005462
Well illustrated with colour plates and line drawings by the author, quarto, pp xvi, 360, xvii, (3), decorated cloth showing very faint wear, otherwise a good sound copy. View more info
By: Cox, Kenneth, (editor), [Frank Kingdon Ward]
Price: £19.50
Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 2001
Seller ID: 014080
ISBN: 1851493719
Condition: Very Good
FIRST EDITION THUS. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 319, owner's large bookplate opposite the half-title, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Little explored and virtually inaccessible, the Tsangpo Gorge in south-east Tibet is the world's deepest gorge. Through it twists the Yarlong Tsangpo, Tibet's great river, emerging from below on the plains of India. This is the story of its exploration and the rich plant and animal life found there. Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges , first published in 1926, is the fascinating account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward's most important... View more info
By: Curtis, Edward S. (introduction by A.D. Coleman & T.C. McLuhan)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: A&W Visual Library: 1972
Seller ID: 015495
ISBN: 089104003xs
Condition: Good
Large horizontal octavo, pp xvi + 88 illustrations from photographs, paperback, covers very slightly worn. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1982
Seller ID: 015438
ISBN: 0691000271
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 170, a few neat pencilled notes relating to greek words on a few pages, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, very good. [This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in o... View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: The Hague, Dr. W. Junk: 1964
Seller ID: 008587
Condition: Good
A few plates, illustrations and maps, large 8vo, pp xxiv, 415, brown cloth, slightly worn. [A diverse and interesting collection of papers, including The Pleistocene environment in southern Africa; Bushman hunter-gatherers : a study in human ecology; plant lore of the bushmen; the eels of South African rivers; the oestroid flies of Africa, south of the Sahara, Karoo vegetation in relation to development of deserts etc.] View more info
By: De Beer, G.R.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Oxford, at the Clarendon Press: 1951
Seller ID: 007240
Condition: Good
Revised edition. Illustrated, pp xii, 159, very slight mark on the fore-edge, neat owner's stamp on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, black cloth very slightly worn. View more info
By: De Morales, Don Adolfo & de Caballero, Geraldine B.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Cochabamba, Universidad Boliviana Mayor de San Juan: 1977
Seller ID: 008399
Condition: Very Good
Large slim 8vo, two illustrations in the text, pp 31, paperback, a good copy. [Postage will be much reduced.] View more info
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By: Engles, J. M. M.; Hawkes, J. G.; Melaku Worede (editors)
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014209
ISBN: 0521384567
Condition: Very Good
Octavo, pp xvi, 383, a tiny mark to the fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy indeed, pictorial laminated boards. From the library of Professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the front endpaper. [One of the world centres of crop evolution and origin, Ethiopia has long been recognized as an important area of diversity for several major and various minor crops. Based on an international conference held in Addis Ababa, this book describes how this genetic diversity is of vital importance in breeding varieties of crops with desirable characteristics such as increased resistance to pests and di... View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications Inc.: 1989
Seller ID: 010520
ISBN: 048625951x
Condition: New
Well illustrated with line drawings, thick 8vo, pp xxii, 512, paperback, a very good new copy. View more info
