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

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

New copy, but a slight bump/crease to the margin of the page fore-edges. Well illustrated, small 8vo, pp 91, paperback, still a 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 Sp...
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Organography of Plants, especially of the Archegoniatae and Spermaphyta

By: Goebel, Dr K. (English edition by Isaav Bayley Balfour)

Price: £85.00

Publisher: Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1900

Seller ID: 016766

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 270; xxiiv, 707, illustrated with 407 small text drawings, very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, an exceptionally fine set.
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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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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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Catalogus hucusque absolutus omnium plantarum in Helvetia cis et transalpina sponte nascentium

By: Schleicher, J.C.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Bex, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland., Published by the author ?:

Seller ID: 016705

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 48, very clean internally, original (?) dark brown paper covers, a slight scuff to the lower cover, otherwise in remarkable condition. An exceptional copy. [Schleicher was German - born, a botanist, bryologist, mycologist, pteridologist, and algologist and settled in Switzerland around 1790. He owned a firm selling living plants as well as herbarium specimens. There were four editions of this work. "The catalogues provide names without descriptions but with very abbreviated references to other authors. For this reason the names in these catalogues may ...
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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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Morphological and Phenological Notes on Zostera marina L. (Eric Groves' copy)

By: Setchell, William Albert

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1929

Seller ID: 014759

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with line drawings within the text, large slim octavo, pp (61), uncut and unopened, very clean internally, paperback, a good sound copy. [Frome the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his small stamp on the upper cover.
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Wayside & Woodland Ferns - a guide to the British ferns, horsetails and club-mosses

By: Step, Edward

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd: 1947

Seller ID: 011688

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

New edition, reprinted 1947. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 144, slight age-toning but otherwise clean and sound internally, cloth very slightly creased on the lower cover, binding slightly skewed, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is rather worn and frayed.
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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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