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Useful Plants of Ghana - West African uses of wild and cultivated plants [Nigel Hepper's copy]

By: Abbiw, Daniel K.

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1990

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.]
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The Conservation of Medicinal Plants

By: Akerele, Olayiwola, Heywood, Vernon & Synge, Hugh

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge Deighton, Bell & Co. Ltd.: 1991

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.)
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Plant Life of South Asia (proceedings of the International Symposium, University of Karachi)

By: Ali, S.I. & Ghaffar, A.

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.]
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Orchid Biology - Reviews and Perspectives Volume 3 (III)

By: Arditti, Joseph (ed)

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.]
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Image for Die Geschichte der Kulturlandschaft und des Ackerbaus in der Siedlungskammer Flogeln, Niedersachsen, seit der Jungsteinzeit :Probleme der Kustenforschung Im Sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Band 21

Die Geschichte der Kulturlandschaft und des Ackerbaus in der Siedlungskammer Flogeln, Niedersachsen, seit der Jungsteinzeit :Probleme der Kustenforschung Im Sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Band 21

By: Behre, Karl-Ernst & Kucan, Dusanka

Price: £22.50

Publisher: Isensee, Oldenburg: 1994

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.
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Plants from the Past

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.]
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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.}

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.}

By: Bleibtreu, Erika

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Vienna, Institutes fur Orientalistik der Universitait Wien: 1980

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.}
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Image for Recherches critiques sur l'olivier de Laperrine. . Étude anatomique du limbe des innovations des Aristida de l'Afrique du Nord et du Sahara. Botanique Saharienne Memoire 6.

Recherches critiques sur l'olivier de Laperrine. . Étude anatomique du limbe des innovations des Aristida de l'Afrique du Nord et du Sahara. Botanique Saharienne Memoire 6.

By: Bourreil, P. Benichou, A

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).
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Summary of the Fourth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1953) {Eric Groves' copy}

By: Brass, L.J.

Price: £12.50

Publisher: New York, American Museum of Natural History: 1956

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.]
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The Flowering of Man - a Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantan

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.]
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Grass Evolution and Domestication

By: Chapman, G.P. (ed.)

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.
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Ethnobotany. Principles and Applications

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...
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Plants and Archaeology (Anthony Huxley's copy)

By: Dimbleby, Geoffrey

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, John Baker: 1967

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.]
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Check List of Pacific Oceanic Islands [Eric Groves' copy]

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.]
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Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants - A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes

By: Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte

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.
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Grazing and Forest Economy

By: FAO

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Rome, Food and Agricul;ure Organization of the United Nations: 1953

Seller ID: 008210

Condition: Fair

A few illustrations, pp 161, paperback, covers a bit worn.
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Flora of Micronesia. Part 3 - Convolvulaceae

By: Fosberg, F. Raymond & Sachet, Marie-Helene

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press: 1977

Seller ID: 015484

Condition: Good

Small slim quarto, pp 34, a double page map, very clean internally, paperback, covers a little unevenly faded. [Not illustrated]
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Human Ecology in the Tropics

By: Garlick, J.P. & Keay, R.W.J. (eds)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Taylor & Francis: 1977

Seller ID: 010959

ISBN: 085066098x

Condition: Very Good

Slim 8vo, pp x, 201, a very good copy indeed in a slightly worn and frayed dustwrapper which is now protected in a removable plastic film.
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The Culture of Flowers

By: Goody, Jack

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 010737

ISBN: 0521414415

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, large thick 8vo, pp xviii, 462, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. This hardback edition is now becoming quite scarce. [Jack Goody's book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times. He links the use of flowers to the rise of advanced systems of agriculture, the growth of social stratification, and the spread of luxury goods, looking at the history of aesthetic horticulture in Europe and Asia. Other themes which emerge are the role of written texts in building u...
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Native African Medicine, with special reference to its practice in the Mano Tribe of Liberia

By: Harley, George Way

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1941

Seller ID: 014318

Condition: Very Good

Large octavo, pp xvi, 294, (not illustrated), a score-mark on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is rather worn and torn. VERY SCARCE. [Loosely inserted is a sheaf of hand-written notes, (which I believe to be by C.A. Thorold), the bulk of these being "Lecture Notes on Sierra Leone". Another set of notes are written on, and almost obscure, the upper cover of an interesting pamphlet - "Programme of African Dances to be Given Under the Auspices of The Tribal Headmen of Freetown, April 10, 11 & 12, 1944; the remai...
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