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![Image for Useful Plants of Ghana - West African uses of wild and cultivated plants [Nigel Hepper's copy]](/assets/images/product/015283.jpg)
By: Abbiw, Daniel K.
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015283
ISBN: 1853390801
Condition: Very Good
A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 337, clean internally, green cloth with a bruise to the lower edge of the back cover, otherwise a very good copy in a faded dustwrapper whiuch is very slightly worn. The scarce hardback edition. [With a presentation inscription from the author to the Kew botanist Nigel Hepper. There is also a typed letter to Hepper from professor P. van Damme, pointing out a possible error to one of the image captions.] View more info
By: Akerele, Olayiwola, Heywood, Vernon & Synge, Hugh
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge Deighton, Bell & Co. Ltd.: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001984
ISBN: 0521392063
Condition: Very Good
Octavo, pp (xx) 362, pictorial laminated boards, no dustwrapper, a very good copy. (This volume consists of the Proceedings of an International Consultation on 21 -27 March 1988 held at Chiang Mai, Thailand. Sections include: The Issue of Medicinal Plants; Science, Industry and Medicinal Plants; Techniques to Conserve Medicinal Plants; Policies to Conserve Medicinal Plants; and Experiences from Programmes to Conserve Medicinal Plants.) View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Department of Botany, University of Karachi: 1991
Seller ID: 005739
ISBN: 9694700019
[Dedicated to Dr R.R. Stewart, on his centennial]. A few illustrations, large 8vo, pp 275, covers very slightly bowed, contents very slightly thumbed, otherwise a good sound copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Articles on the vegetation of Bangladesh, Mongolia, on the Euphorbiaceae of Pakistan, Chenopodiaceae, medicinal plants of Pakistan etc.] View more info
Price: £17.50
Publisher: Ithaca, Comstock Publishing: 1984
Seller ID: 012710
ISBN: 0801410401
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated. large octavo, pp 432, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Includes Ethnobotany of the Orchidaceae, Orchid Phytoalexins, Physiology of Germinating Orchid Seeds, Chromosomes in Orchids, A Reassessment of the Sectional limits on the Genus Cymbidium.] View more info
By: Behre, Karl-Ernst & Kucan, Dusanka
Price: £22.50
Publisher: Isensee, Oldenburg: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Authors
Seller ID: 010765
ISBN: 3895982547
Condition: Very Good
German text. Illustrated, many folding charts, small folio, pp 227, green cloth, a slight blemish on the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy throughout. Presenation copy to Dr Peter Moore, signed by both authors. [The history of the cultural landscape and agriculture in Flogeln, Lower Saxony, since the Neolithic period.] A heavy book - extra postage may be required. View more info
![Image for Farming in Prehistory - from hunter-gatherer to food producer [Sir John Burnett's copy]](/assets/images/product/014264.jpg)
By: Bender, Barbara
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, John Baker: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014264
ISBN: 0212970038
Condition: Good
A few illustrations and maps, octavo, pp xii, 268, very clean internally, paperback, covers creased. [From the library of Sir John Burnett, with his signature on the front endpaper. A distinguished academic career and a lifelong interest in fungi, botany and nature conservation made him the ideal champion for biological recording in the UK. He held that effective nature conservation could be achieved only if good quality information about species and their habitats was accessible to all who needed it - a belief that made him perfectly suited to run the National Biodiversity Network, founded in... View more info
By: Blake, Leonard W. & Cutler, Hugh C
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Alabama, USA, The University of Alabama Press: 2001
Seller ID: 003241
ISBN: 0817310878
Condition: New
Illustrated with charts & tables, 8vo, pp (xviii), 177, paperback, a very good copy. [Traces develoment of the study of plant remains from archaeological sites over a period of 30 years, and gives access to previously unavailable data and interpretations. This features the much-sought-after extensive inventory "Plants from Archaeological Sites East of the Rockies," which serves as a reference to archaeological collections curated at the Illinois State Museum.] View more info
![Image for Die Flora der Neuassyrischen Reliefs [Nigel Hepper's copy] {The flora of the Neo-Assyrian reliefs - A Study on the Orthostatic Reliefs of the 9th-7th. Century BC.}](/assets/images/product/014319.jpg)
By: Bleibtreu, Erika
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Vienna, Institutes fur Orientalistik der Universitait Wien: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014319
ISBN: 3900345015
Condition: Very Good
GERMAN TEXT. Illustrated, octavo, pp 279, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [Presentation copy to the Kew botanist Nigel Hepper - "with kind regards from the author".]. VERY SCARCE. {The flora of the Neo-Assyrian reliefs - A Study on the Orthostatic Reliefs of the 9th-7th. Century BC.} View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Alger, Institut de Recheres Sahariennes: 1962
Seller ID: 008268
Condition: Good
A few illustrations and charts, quarto, pp 202, paperback, very slightly worn. (The work on the olive occupies the first 55 pages). 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: Breedlove, Dennis E. & Laughlin, Robert M.
Price: £7.20
Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution: 2000
Seller ID: 002926
ISBN: 1560988975
Condition: Very Good
NEW. An abridged edition of the 1993 work. Well illustrated, quarto, pp xiv, 336, paperback, a very good copy. [Abridged this may be, but it is still an impressively detailed work, with information on 2,686 plants. A botanical history of a Mayan people from the Spanish conquest to the present day.] View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1992
Seller ID: 008156
ISBN: 052141654X
Condition: Very Good
Original printing. A few illustrations, pp xviii, 390, pictorial laminated boards, a very good copy. View more info
By: Cotton, C.M.
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Chichester, John Wiley & Sons: 1996
Seller ID: 007957
ISBN: 047195537X
Condition: Good
A very few illustrations, pp x, 424, paperback, very slightly worn. A standard work. [Interest in ethnobotany has increased dramatically in recent years. The search for new medicines by the pharmaceutical industry has turned to plant natural products and to ethnobotanical studies as a first step in bioprospecting. These studies are making a valuable contribution to the cataloguing of biological diversity and hence to the conservation of endangered ecosystems and the human societies which depend upon them. Discussing traditional methods of plant management as well as plant use, this textbook is... View more info
Price: £3.00
Publisher: London, John Baker: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013718
Condition: Good
Illustrated, large octavo, pp 187, very clean internally, cloth in very good condition, lacks free front endpaper and has a ticket holder on the other, so probably an ex-library copy, but still very good in a price-clipped and slightly worn dustwrapper, now nicely protected in a removable plastic film. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp.] View more info
![Image for Check List of Pacific Oceanic Islands [Eric Groves' copy]](/assets/images/product/014339.jpg)
By: Douglas, Gina
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, International Biological Programme: 1969
Seller ID: 014339
Condition: Very Good
Small quarto, pp (136), paperback, covers very slightly worn and faded, otherwise a very clean copy. Reprinted from Micronesia Volume 5. A useful work - for each island there are details of size, physical character, past and present land use, together with the then current status and scientific knowledge. [From the library of the botanist Eric Groves. He has put it in a removable card cover, with a pocket at the rear containing a National Geographic folding map of the Pacific.] View more info
By: Eland, Sue. (Gren Lucas, foreword)
Price: £59.99
Publisher: Plant Biographies: 2013
Seller ID: 008762
ISBN: 0957653905
Condition: New
CDROM. (Postage will be reduced). A wonderful cornucopia of information on the uses, importance, history, economics, folklore and literature of plants. This work draws together, in plain language, direct and indirect data on plant species which is not readily available to the general public. The plants include trees, palms, shrubs, annuals, biennials, perennials, cacti, seaweeds, lichens, ferns, mosses and fungi (excluding the larger fungi such as mushrooms). The text covers many common and foreign plant names, their social cultural and economic uses, their involvement in customs and events, t... 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
By: Fairchild, David
Price: £30.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1931
Seller ID: 013877
Condition: Good
Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxii, 591, very slightly age-toned, endpapers foxed, otherwise a good copy internally, cloth very slightly bumped, the spine is faded and slightly mottled. View more info
By: FAO
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Roma, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: 1987
Seller ID: 007857
Condition: Good
Quarto, pp 184, xeroxed and stapled, paperback, cover slightly worn. View more info
By: FAO
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Rome, Food and Agricul;ure Organization of the United Nations: 1953
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 008210
Condition: Fair
A few illustrations, pp 161, paperback, covers a bit worn. View more info
