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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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Calliandra : A versatile small tree for the humid tropics (Pat Brenan's copy]

By: N/A

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Washington, National Academy Press: 1984

Seller ID: 013981

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Illustrated, slim octavo, pp 52, paperback, covers a little faded otherwise a very good copy. With the bookplate of the botanist Pat Brenan, at one time Director of Kew Gardens. [Postage will be reduced]
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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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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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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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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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The Cork

By: de Oliveira, Manuel Alves & Leonel

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Grupo Amorim: 1991

Seller ID: 013763

ISBN: 9729552509

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small slim quarto, pp 159, slight production damage to the front endpaper at the upper hinge, otherwise an immaculate copy internally, pictorial boards in excellent condition, a fine copy in the original cork slipcase.[A detailed and highly photographic monograph of the economic aspects of the Cork Oak - Quercus suber.]
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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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