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...
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...
Small horizontal quarto, pp 208, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn and slightly curled. [Describes the wonders of Australia's Kakadu National Park and discusses the life of the local Gagudju people.] View More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Illustrated, large octavo, pp xii, 317, very clean internally, original cloth-backed boards, in a very good dustwrapper. [Mick Leahy with Mick Dwyer walked across New Guinea in 1930 and disproved the prevailing opinion that the interior of the island was unpopulated. In 1931, together with his brother Patrick, he explored the Kukukuku land. Mick and his brother Danny were leaders of the 1933 expedition into the Western Highlands. He also made two pioneering airplane flights into the western highlands, discovering the Wahgi Valley, taking thousands of photographs and movie film. Leahy believed... View More...
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...
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...
[Spanish text]. Five volumes, with reproductions of the original title pages, large octavo, PAGES UNCUT AND UNOPENED, marbled endpapers, red coth with black spine labels, slightly faded and rubbed but very firm, a good set. [Please note - the pages are uncut, unopened. They will need to be opened with a sharp knife. PAGINA SIN ABRIR.] SCARCE.] A heavy set - extra postage will be needed. View More...
Eighth printing. Large horizontal octavo, pp 149, very clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition but slightly curved. View More...
[Originally published 1925]. Octavo, pp 349, a few illustrations, a folding map (a little creased) otherwise clean internally, red cloth very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and slightly marked and worn. [From the library of the Kew botanist Jan Gillett, with his signature on the front endpaper. Gillett was a notable authority on tropical African botany.] View More...
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...
First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates and line drawings in the text, octavo, pp xii, 271, the upper cprners very slightly bruised, the fore-edge rather strongly fox-marked, the endpapers lightly foxed, blue cloth slightly marked and worn, the spine faded at head and tail and with three small pin-prick holes towards the bottom, the dustwrapper is rather stretched and worn and lacking picesat the head and tail of its spine but now protected in a removable clear cover. The dustwrapper is quite scarce. [ The author was an English anthropologist who was instrumental i... View More...
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