Category: Bryology and Algae

Well illustrated with line drawings, quarto, pp viii, 387, fore-edge very slightly marked, paperback, covers very slightly worn, otherwise a very good copy.
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Ciliated Protozoa - an illustrated guide to the species used as biological indicators in freshwater biology

By: Bick, Hartmut

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Geneva, World Health Organization: 1972

Seller ID: 016293

ISBN: 0119505037

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 198, paperback, slightly worn, an ex-library copy with stamps and ticket holder on title page, faint stamps on upper cover, and shelf number on spine.
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Mosses and Liverworts of (Mt) Mount Kinabalu.

By: Frahm, Jan Peter. Frey, Wolfgang. Kurschner, Harald & Menzel, Mario

Price: £8.75

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Parks Publication: 1996

Seller ID: 003024

ISBN: 9838120111

Condition: Good

New copy, but a slight bump/crease to the margin of the page edges. Well illustrated, small 8vo, pp 91, paperback, a very good copy . Mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) are one of the most characteristic phenomena of the tropical montane rain forest. On Mount Kinabalu they exhibit the typical aspect of the "mossy forest", hanging from trees and carpeting the ground and hillsides along the summit trail. This booklet provides basic information on mosses and liverworts with special reference to the species occurring in Kinabalu Park, particularly the common species at Poring Hot Springs,...
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Mosses and Liverworts of (Mt) Mount Kinabalu.

By: Frahm, Jan Peter. Frey, Wolfgang. Kurschner, Harald & Menzel, Mario

Price: £9.75

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Parks Publication: 1996

Seller ID: 008878

ISBN: 9838120111

Condition: New

New copy. Well illustrated, small 8vo, pp 91, paperback, a very good copy . [Mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) are one of the most characteristic phenomena of the tropical montane rain forest. On Mount Kinabalu they exhibit the typical aspect of the "mossy forest", hanging from trees and carpeting the ground and hillsides along the summit trail. This booklet provides basic information on mosses and liverworts with special reference to the species occurring in Kinabalu Park, particularly the common species at Poring Hot Springs, the trails around the Park Headquarters and along the su...
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British Mosses

By: Fry, Sir Edward

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Witherby: 1908

Seller ID: 002287

SECOND EDITION. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp [6], 72, cloth backed boards that are slightly worn and stained, top section of the book is slightly bowed and both boards creased in this area, foxing to endpapers, a couple of cracked hinges and some minor worming, otherwise clean internally.
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A Synopsis of the British Mosses

By: Hobkirk, C.P.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Reeve and Co.: 1884

Seller ID: 000715

Condition: Very Good

Second edition, revised and entirely rearranged. Small octavo, pp xii,240, scattered foxing throughout, decorated cloth gilt, a little blotched and rubbed, but a good sound copy.
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The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839 - 1843

By: Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: Weinheim, J. Cramer: 1966

Seller ID: 015943

Condition: Very Good

Facsimile reprint. Three vols thick octavo, + one volume folio, pp xiv, 574; xl, 312, 378; cxxviii, 360, 422; + 528 plain illustrations, one small mark to the fore-edge of Volume III, otherwise a very good clean set weighing over 7 kilos before packing. EXTREMELY SCARCE [The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. It explored what is now called the Ross Sea and discovered the Ross Ice Shelf. On the expedition, Ross discovered the Transantarctic Mountain...
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Flora Hibernica; Comprising of the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characeae, Musc, Hepaticae, Lichenes and Algae of Ireland. Arranged According to the Natural System with a Synopsis of the Genera According to the Linnean System

By: Mackay, James Townsend

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Dublin, London & Edinburgh, William Curry Jun & Company (et al): 1836

Seller ID: 015337

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes bound in one, octavo, pp xxxiv, (5), 354; 279, a little age-toning and occasional foxing which is heavier on a few pages, but overall this is a very clean sound copy in an attractive early twentieth century full morocco in excellent condition. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby, and early founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. RARE. [Mackay (1775 - 1862) was a Scottish botanist who lived in Ireland. He discovered several species of plants new to the British Isles, and contributed largely to Sir J. E. Smith's English Botany (1790-1814). His herbarium is preserved at Trinit...
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Botany of the Canadian Eastern Arctic

By: Polunin, N.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Canada:

Seller ID: 000724

Condition: Very Good

Three volumes, a few illustrations, three folding maps in rear pockets, pp xi,408; vi,573; viii,305, paperback, a very good set in only very slightly worn covers. SCARCE. 1940-48. [Volume 1 - Pteridophyta & Spermatophyta. Volume 2 - Thallophyta & Bryophyta. Volume 3 - Vegetation and ecology.]
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Flora Europaea Algarum Dulcis et Submarinae

By: Rabenhorst, Ludovico

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Eduardum Kummerum:

Seller ID: 002812

Condition: Good

Three volumes, [1864 - 1868], portrait frontispiece, numerous line drawings in the text, 8vo, three title pages + cumulative title page at front, pp 359; 319; 461, a little foxing to the title pages and preliminaries. This is a reference library copy, and was originally in C.N. Peals's library in Walpole Park, Ealing, London. The binding is a clean library cloth, and there is a library bookplate on each front endpaper. Each title page has a neat category number, and apart from this the only other markings are the original small stamps of the Walpole Park library on title pages and a few other ...
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A Book of Mosses

By: Richards, Paul

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Harmondsworth, Penguin Books: 1950

Seller ID: 009494

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 40, with 16 colour plates from Hedwig's "Descriptio...muscorum" of 1787-97, a very good clean copy with pictorial boards designed by Paxton Chadwick, in a dustwrapper which repeats the Chadwick design, slightly faded, slightly worn on the spine, lacking a small piece at the top of the upper cover, very slightly worn at the corners. Postage will be reduced.
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Wildlife of Rogart

By: Rogart Wildlife Group (including Andrew Coupar, Malcolm Rider, John Macdonald, Viv Halcrow, Ian Evans, Roger Smith, Fiona Winstanley, Tony Mainwood etc.]

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Rogart Wildlife Group & Highland Biological Recording Group: 2007

Seller ID: 012329

ISBN: 0955221110

Condition: New

Illustrated, small octavo, pp 128, paperback, a very good new copy. [A useful small survey of all aspects of wildlife in this Highland parish in East Sutherland.]
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Wildlife of Scourie

By: Scourie Wildlife Group (including Ian and Pat Evans, Grace Ambler, Shona Marshall, Melissa McFadden, Donald Mitchell, Isobel Patience, Rae Wood)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Scourie Wildlife Group: 2006

Seller ID: 012328

Condition: New

Illustrated, small octavo, pp 78, paperback, a very good new copy. [A good general guide to the varied flora and fauna of the small Highland parish in West Sutherland.]
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Essays in Plant Taxonomy (Max Walters' copy)

By: Street, H.E. (editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Academic Press: 1978

Seller ID: 016210

ISBN: 0126733600

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, octavo, pp xxiv, 304, very clean internally, brown cloth in good condition, a very good copy in a slightly worn and frayed dustwrapper. With the signature of Max Walters - one of the contributors. [Plant taxonomy and ecological criteria,, chemical evidence and chromosomes; classifiacation of crop plants; taxonomy of bryophytes, lichens, endemic taxa, British endemics etc.]
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Category: Bryology and Algae

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