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Genetic Manipulation of Crops - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Genetic Manipulation; the 3rd International Symposium on Haploidy; the Ist International Symposium on Somatic Cell Genetics in Crops. Beijing 1984.

By: N/A

Price: £17.50

Publisher: London, Cassell Tycooly: 1988

Seller ID: 003239

ISBN: 1851480226

Large 8vo, pp xx, 466, paperback, slight wear to the covers, the lower cover slightly creased, a very good copy internally. [Haploids. Diploids. Mutation and Mutagenesis. Somaclonal variation. Somatic morphogenesis. Protoplast.
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Semi-Dwarf Cereal Mutants and Their Use in Cross-Breeding . [Proceedings of a Research Co-Ordination Meeting Organized By the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Isotope and Radiation Applications of Atomic Energy for Food and Agricultural Development

By: N/A

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency: 1982

Seller ID: 004286

Quarto, pp 138, paperback, the slightest signs of wear, initials of professor J.G. Hawkes on upper cover.
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Mangium and Other Fast-Growing Acacias for the Humid Tropics

By: N/A

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Washington, National Academy Press: 1983

Seller ID: 013982

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Illustrated, slim octavo, pp 62, paperback, a very good copy. [Postage will be reduced]
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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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Image for Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzen-Gattungen in Illustrationen auf hundert in Stein gravierten Tafeln nebst erläuterndem Texte oder Atlas zur Pharmazeutischen Botanik

Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzen-Gattungen in Illustrationen auf hundert in Stein gravierten Tafeln nebst erläuterndem Texte oder Atlas zur Pharmazeutischen Botanik

By: Berg, Otto

Price: £57.50

Publisher: Berlin, Rudolph Gaertner: 1861

Seller ID: 015405

Condition: Good

["Characteristics of the most important for the pharmacology and technology plant species in illustrations, with explanatory text or Atlas of Pharmaceutical Botany"]. Small quarto, illustrated with 100 lithograph plates, (of which 4 are partially and lightly hand-coloured), pp (2), 116, light waterstaining at the base of the text pages but the plates are not affected, a little age-toning, the first plate rather age-toned but the rest very bright, recently bound in a new marbled cloth, with black spine label.
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Image for Die Kulturpflanze. Mitteilungen aus dem Zentralinstitut für Genetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR Band. 29 (=Volume XXIX] [Jack Hawkes' copy]

Die Kulturpflanze. Mitteilungen aus dem Zentralinstitut für Genetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR Band. 29 (=Volume XXIX] [Jack Hawkes' copy]

By: Bohme, H. (et al) (editors)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Berlin, Akademie Verlag: 1981

Seller ID: 013963

ISBN: 0075-7209

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 534, slightly used internally, paperback, covers slightly worn, spine wrinkled and slightly fraying at the head. [Professor Jack Hawkes' copy, with his signature on the front endpaper and the outer cover. He contributed one of the papers, many of which are in English.] A heavy book - extra postage may be needed.
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Medicinal Plants of North Africa

By: Boulos, Loutfy

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Algonac, Michigan, Reference Publications, Inc: 1983

Seller ID: 015021

ISBN: 0917256166

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with botanical line drawings, octavo, pp 286, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Nigel Hepper's copy, signed by author and artist. SCARCE. [Covers Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.]
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Plants Consumed by Man [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Brouk, B.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London & New York, Academic Press: 1975

Seller ID: 009347

ISBN: 012136450X

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp x, 479, very slight foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise a good sound copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper which is slightly worn and torn. SCARCE. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, ...
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XXV Anniversaire de la Fondation du Bulletin Agricole, 1910-1935 (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, 1935

By: Bulletin Agricole du Congo Belge

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Bruxelles, Bulletin Agricole du Congo Belge: 1935

Seller ID: 016615

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

[A special issue of Bulletin Agricole du Congo Belge, Volume XXVI number2.]. Contains an illustrated description of the exhibit at the Exposition, together with a cumulative index to the Bulletin, and an article - "Notices sur quelques plantes tropicales utiles" - which contains 22 coloured plates. Octavo, pp (101), rather worn and damp-wrinkled throughout, paperback, covers a bit worn, a library stamp on the upper cover. SCARCE.
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The Oil Palm in Malaya

By: Bunting, B.; Georgi, C.D.V. & Milsum, J.N.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Kuala Lumpur, Department of Agriculture, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States: 1934

Seller ID: 015853

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 293, x, very clean internally, cloth very slightly marked, otherwise a very good copy. SCARCE. [Signature of E. Milsum on front endpaper]
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Image for Deutschlands technische pflanzen mit genauer beschreibung ihres arten-charakters ihres vorkommens ihrer blüthezeit und dauer ihres anbaus ihrer eigenschaften ihrer anwendung und vollständiger aufführung ihrer synonymen

Deutschlands technische pflanzen mit genauer beschreibung ihres arten-charakters ihres vorkommens ihrer blüthezeit und dauer ihres anbaus ihrer eigenschaften ihrer anwendung und vollständiger aufführung ihrer synonymen

By: Calwer, C.G.

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Krais & Hoffmann: 1854

Seller ID: 014798

Condition: Very Good

Dritte Abtheilung. Small slim quarto, pp vi, 50, (ii), with 12 very fine hand-coloured lithographic plates. The text pages show a little age-toning, with some foxing around the margins; the plates are exceptionally bright and clean. Neatly bound in green cloth, probably dating from the 1930's. The bookplate is of Kenneth Lazenby, a founder member of the Alpine Garden Society. RARE.
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Plants, Food, People

By: Chrispeels, Maarten J. & Sadava, David

Price: £4.50

Publisher: San Francisco, W.H. Freeman and Company: 1977

Seller ID: 014216

ISBN: 0716703777

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations within the text, octavo, pp (6), 278, an old pencil price rather heavy on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean inernally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [Plants as a source of food; nutrition from the soil; energy in crop production; origins of modern agriculture; strategies for pest control; plant breeding and the green revolution etc.]
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Image for Medicinal Plants of India and Pakistan. A Concise Work Describing Plants Used for Drugs and Remedies According to Ayurvedic, Unani, Tibbi Systems and Mentioned in British and American Pharmacopoeias.

Medicinal Plants of India and Pakistan. A Concise Work Describing Plants Used for Drugs and Remedies According to Ayurvedic, Unani, Tibbi Systems and Mentioned in British and American Pharmacopoeias.

By: Dastur, J.F.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Bombay, D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co Private Ltd:

Seller ID: 014892

Condition: Very Good

12mo, pp viii, 212, not illustrated, a little foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers showing only the slightest signs of wear. A small format work, but very concentrated information. VERY SCARCE.
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Atlas De Poche Des Plantes Utiles Des Pays Chauds, Les Plus Importantes Pour Le Commerce

By: De Janville, P.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Paris, Paul Klincksieck: 1902

Seller ID: 004063

63 coloured and 37 plain plates, 12mo, pp vi, 173, some foxing throuoghout, half-title slightly marked, grey cloth a little dull and worn, lower cover a little marked. SCARCE.
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Plants of Hawaii National Park Illustrative of Plants and Customs of the South Seas

By: Degener, Otto

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Private printing ?: 1984

Seller ID: 013427

Condition: Very Good

[1984 reprint of the original work of 1930]. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 312, (4), paperback, a very good copy. [A work of considerable detail.]
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Plants and Man - the story of our basic food

By: Edlin, H.L.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: New York, The Natural History Press: 1967

Seller ID: 015788

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 253, very clean internally, pictorial cloth very slightly bumped, a good copy in a poor dustwrapper.
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Herbarium Survey of African Corchorus species

By: EDMONDS, Jennifer M.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Rome, International Board for Plant Genetic Resources: 1990

Seller ID: 005550

ISBN: 9290431911

Maps, large 8vo, pp 284, paperback, very slightly worn, corner slightly bumped, otherwise a good copy with slightly faded covers.
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Energy Plant Species - Their Use and Impact on Environment and Development (Peter Moore's copy)

By: El Bassam, N.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, James and James (Science Publishers) Ltd: 1998

Seller ID: 015475

ISBN: 1873936753

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, a few illustrations, pp xii, 321, laminated boards, slightly curved, otherwise as new. [From the library of Dr Peter Moore, with his signature on the front endpaper.]
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Managing Plant Genetic Diversity

By: Engels, Johannes ; V R Rao; Anthony H D Brown; Michael Jackson

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Wallingford, CABI Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 014168

ISBN: 0851995225

Condition: As New

Large octavo, pp xviii, 487, pictorial boards, a very good copy, virtually as new. Professor Jack Hawkes' copy, who contributed a short introductory paper on O.H. Frankel. This is preceeded by M.T. Jackson's "Jack Hawkes : plant collector, researcher, educator and visionary". [This book contains edited and revised papers from a conference on 'Science and Technology for Managing Plant Genetic Diversity in the 21st Century' held in Malaysia in June 2000, organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI). It includes keynote papers and some 40 additional ones, cov...
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PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES IN ETHIOPIA (Jack Hawkes' copy]

By: Engles, J. M. M.; Hawkes, J. G.; Melaku Worede (editors)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1991

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...
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