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

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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] View more info

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

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Second printing. Illustrated, slim octavo, pp 62, paperback, a very good copy. [Postage will be reduced] View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015283

ISBN: 1853390801

Condition: Very Good

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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

The Gramineae - a study of cereal, bamboo, and grass

By: Arber, Agnes

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 014802

Condition: Good

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Colour frontispiece, many text illustrations, large octavo, pp xviii, 480, slightly used internally, endpapers slightly worn, traces of a label removed from the fromt endpaper, the verso of the frontispiece is foxed, fore-edge very slightly foxed, green cloth slightly worn and faded, the spine is very faded and with one stain. [After the publication of The Monocotyledons Arber continued her research into this group, concentrating her research into the Gramineae family of plants. This led to the publication of this, her final book concerning plant morphology. In this book Arber described the li... View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015405

Condition: Good

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["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. View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 013963

ISBN: 0075-7209

Condition: Good

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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. View more info

Medicinal Plants of North Africa

By: Boulos, Loutfy

Price: £75.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author and artist

Seller ID: 015021

ISBN: 0917256166

Condition: Very Good

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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.] View more info

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

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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

Plants Consumed by Man [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Brouk, B.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London & New York, Academic Press: 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 009347

ISBN: 012136450X

Condition: Very Good

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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, ... View more info

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

Edition: Second edition

Seller ID: 014798

Condition: Very Good

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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. View more info

Plants, Food, People

By: Chrispeels, Maarten J. & Sadava, David

Price: £4.50

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 014216

ISBN: 0716703777

Condition: Very Good

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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.] View more info

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:

Edition: Second edition

Seller ID: 014892

Condition: Very Good

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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. View more info

The Cork

By: de Oliveira, Manuel Alves & Leonel

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Grupo Amorim: 1991

Edition: First English edition

Seller ID: 013763

ISBN: 9729552509

Condition: Very Good

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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.] View more info

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

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[1984 reprint of the original work of 1930]. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 312, (4), paperback, a very good copy. [A work of considerable detail.] View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015475

ISBN: 1873936753

Condition: Very Good

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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.] View more info

Managing Plant Genetic Diversity

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

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Wallingford, CABI Publishing: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 014168

ISBN: 0851995225

Condition: As New

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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... View more info