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20010007502001. Illustrated octavo pp xiv 570 a very good new copy in dustwrapper. The Kinabalu flora includes over 5000 species of vascular plants and is one of the most diverse if not the most diverse flora in the world. The primary objective of this project is to provide an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu 4 enumerates the dicotyledon families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae roughly half of this major group. This fourth volume in the series contains sections on the historical aspects of plant collecting on Mount Kinabalu a biographical sketch of two of the most important collectors Mary Strong and Joseph Clemens an analysis of the collections elevational distribution of the dicotyledons a list of cultivated and introduced dicots enumeration of the species and indexes to numbered collections. Information is provided for each species on literature habit habitat elevation range and specimens upon which the study is based. These dicotyledons include 83 families 430 genera and about 1575 taxa. THIS BOOK WEIGHS OVER 1.5 KILOS UNPACKED. Please e-mail us for the revised shipping charge. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. Hardcover
2005003502Royal Botanic Garden Kew 2005. Dicotyledon Families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae. Illustrated thick 8vo pp xiv 609 dustwrapper a very good copy. VERY HEAVY - EXTRA POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED. All volumes should be available - please enquire. The principal objective of this project has been to provide an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. This Volume 5 completes the inventory with an enumeration of the dicotyledons in families in alphabetical order from Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae. The other four volumes cover respectively the ferns and fern allies orchids gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledons and dicotyledons in families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae. The Kinabalu flora includes about 5000 species of vascular plants and is arguably one of the richest floras in the world on the basis of number of species on a per-unit-area basis. Additionally Mount Kinabalu has been a centre of extremely active plant evolution and speciation and presents an outstanding natural laboratory for studying these processes. This last volume in the series contains sections on historical aspects of plant collecting on Mount Kinabalu a biographical sketch of Hugh Low the first person to climb and collect plants on the mountain a sketch likewise of Elmer Drew Merrill who described more new species in the floras of Mount Kinabalu and Southeast Asia than any other person. Volume 5 is dedicated to these two individuals. Also included are analyses of the collections a discussion of ecological associations consideration of dicotyledon life-forms lists of cultivated and introduced dicotyledons consideration of phytogeographical relationships a review of classification of the dicotyledons and an index to numbered collections. The main part of the book enumerates 66 families 364 genera and 1399 species subspecies and varieties in dicotyledon families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae known in the Kinabalu flora. Information is provided for each species on literature habit habitat elevation range and specimens upon which the study is based. About 24000 specimens representing this group of dicotyledons were examined. These were collected over a period of 150 years 18512000 by about 300 naturalists explorers botanists and local people and are the basis for virtually all the accumulated knowledge of the Mount Kinabalu flora. The book has involved the collaboration of 15 noted specialists in various plant groups. The last comprehensive works on the Kinabalu flora were Otto Stapfs monumental 1894 account On the Flora of Mount Kinabalu in North Borneo and Lilian Gibbss 1914 work A Contribution to the Flora and Plant Formations of Mount Kinabalu and the Highlands of British North Borneo. Stapfs paper listed only 172 taxa in the families covered by this volume. Thus the present work includes an eight-fold increase in taxa since Stapfs time and has the advantage of being based on more than a century of advances in knowledge of the flora and improvements in the scientific methodology for conducting such a study. The project has involved new and innovative procedures for carrrying out floristic inventories and is serving as a model for similar projects in other parts of the world. Specimens have been examined in some 30 different herbaria including all relevant specimens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew the Natural History Museum London and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands Leiden Branch. Gibbs had about 360 collections available for the dicotyledons in this group in her account and Stapf had only about 236. In contrast the present study is based upon nearly 24000 specimen records representing over 14000 collections accumulated over the 150 years since Mount Kinabalu was first explored by Hugh Low in 1851. Cloth. New/New. Royal Botanic Garden Kew Hardcover
19980046131998. NEW. Illustrated large 8vo pp xii 220 a very good copy in dustwrapper. Mount Kinabalu has been a centre of extremely active plant evolution and speciation and presents a spectacular natural laboratory for studying these processes. This third volume in the series includes sections on the history of botanical research on Mount Kinabalu analysis of collecting activities geographical distributions and endemism ecological associations of the species life-forms classification and evolution of the monocotyledons an enumeration of the species and indexes to numbered collections. Information is provided for each species on literature habit habitat elevation range and specimens upon which the study is based. The gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledons of Mount Kinabalu include 38 families 173 genera and about 490 species subspecies and varieties. More than 5000 specimens were examined and recorded for the project. These have been collected over a period of 145 years 1851-1996. The project involves new and innovative procedures for conducting floristic inventories and is serving as a model for similar projects in other parts of the world. Pictorial Cover. New/New. Hardcover
19858684139Research Branch Agriculture Canada 1985. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN:0660117940 Research Branch Agriculture Canada paperback
1994017098Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in association with the Botanical Museum Copenhagen 1994. A few illustrations large octavo pp xii 400 very clean internally paperback very slightly worn at the corners. VERY SCARCE. Signed by the first author on the title page. Alan Radcliffe-Smith's copy with copies of his review for The Palestine Exploration Fund loosely inserted. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in association with the Botanical Museum, Copenhagen Paperback
1828017561Edinburgh and London: John Murray 1828. Second edition greatly improved and enlarged. Illustrated with six engraved plates octavo pp xxxviii 527 sadly the plates are heavily foxed which has also affected the neighbouring page howver the remainder of the text is remarkably clean and very tight and sound; bound in a contemporary half calf rubbed rebacked sympathetically with a new calf spine. lightly tipped-in at the first page is a small advertisement leaf warning of 'sundry ignorant and uneducated persons' attempting to pass themselves off as having been trained by Henry Steuart - this seems to be scarce. Steuart 1759 - 1836 was a Scottish landowner agricultural improver soldier and classical scholar. Owing to bad health Steuart abandoned most of his literary work and experiments in arboriculture became the chief interest of his life. In September 1823 a deputation from the Highland and Agricultural Society which included Sir Walter Scott and Lords Belhaven and Corehouse visited Allanton and reported on the improvements effected there by Steuart's system of transplanting large trees. Though he had had to contend with an unfavourable soil and an exposed position he attained at no extraordinary expense the power so long desired of anticipating the slow progress of vegetation and accomplishing within two or three seasons those desirable changes in the face of nature which he who plants in early youth can in ordinary cases only hope to witness in advanced life. From this time Steuart frequently corresponded with Sir Walter who imitated several of Steuart's experiments at Abbotsford. When in 1828 Steuart published this work Scott reviewed it enthusiastically in the Quarterly March. When Scott visited Allanton in January 1829 in company with Lockhart he noted in his journal: Sir Henry is a sad coxcomb and lifted beyond the solid earth by the effect of his book's success. But the book well deserves it. The book was also favourably reviewed by Southwood Smith in the Westminster Review by Professor Wilson Christopher North in Blackwood's Magazine April 1828 and in the Edinburgh Review March 1829. It had a large circulation in America. In his preface to the second edition Steuart claims to have made the first attempt to apply the principles of physiology to practical arboriculture and to have created the new science of phytology. Second edition. Half Leather. Good. John Murray Hardcover
19295781900Clarendon Press 1929. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Pages loose Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1300grams ISBN: Clarendon Press hardcover
19245795583J. & A. Churchill 1924. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1100grams ISBN: J. & A. Churchill hardcover
19295782148John Wiley and Sons 1929. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1100grams ISBN: John Wiley and Sons hardcover
199025300Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Hard covers Scarcely used. Kluwer Academic Publishers hardcover
19303734097New Flora and Silva Ltd 1930. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: New Flora and Silva Ltd hardcover
19818611590Penguin 1981. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN:0140220534 Penguin hardcover
18752928447Henry George Bohn 1875. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Large 8vo with green cloth. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Moderate foxing on some pages. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1150grams ISBN: Henry George Bohn hardcover
185459626Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons 1854. Folio. 12 x 15 in. 122 pp. all text w/in engraved ruled borders. Double-page hand-coloured steel-engraved frontisp. map 24 steel-engraved hand-coloured maps 1 text map. Contemporary half-maroon-coloured sheep over plum-coloured cloth gilt lettering on front cover & spine pale yellow clay-sized endpapers a.e.g. very slight occasional interior thumb soiling or dustsoiling minor scuffing to fore-edges wear to corners rear hinge starting still VG copy from library of Edwin Corbold 1827-1921 Independent Minister later Congregational Reverend and temperance supporter at Purley in Surrey. First “Reduced†edition of the first physical atlas ever published in England. Johnston 1804-1871 explains in his preface the four sections of Geology Hydrology Meteorology and Natural History originally Phytology & Zoology which were subsequently reduced in order to serve as a very popular educational atlas. Each section includes beautifully engraved maps and explanatory sections and the large Palaeontological map of the British Islands with extensive colouring and added notes by Edward Forbes. Johnston’s work reflected not only the increased interest in mapping geological zoological and biological distributions but also focused on the measurement of climate and environmental factors. William Blackwood & Sons, hardcover
0243198418.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19967069724Oxford University Press 1996. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1400grams ISBN:9780198288756 Oxford University Press hardcover
19967069723Oxford University Press 1996. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1450grams ISBN:9780198288756 Oxford University Press hardcover
1891035628London / New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1889 1891. Second Edition With Appendix . Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 360 Pp Title Page Indicates Second Edition Dated 1889; This The Enlarged 1891 Issue With 60 Pp Appendix At End New Title Page Dated 1891. Second And Best Edition With The 1891 Appendix As Issued 1891. Fisher Described The Mechanism Of Plate Tectonics In 1881 Ascribing It To Convection Currents In The Earth's Molten Interior. This Work On Continental Drift Went Unnoticed Or Ridiculed But Was More Consistent With Modern Science Than The Criticisms Of His Work. An Unopened Copy Pages Still Attached Along Top Edge. Black Endpapers Immaculate Binding Firm No Names Or Marks. Very Scarce. <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Co. Ltd. (1889) hardcover
20054927586Oxford University Press 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:0199248028 Oxford University Press hardcover
20054928924Oxford University Press 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN:9780199248025 Oxford University Press hardcover
1961007502Colombo: Ceylon National Museums 1961 Book condition: Good in pale boards with a glued binding and a taped spine; light wear to edges corners; uneven browning/fading to boards; browning to pastedowns prelims; some pages uncut. 180 pages. A tight square copy. Ceylon National Museums hardcover
007435Madison WI: State of Wisconsin 1932. 608pp/illus/maps. Includes color fold-out relief map of Wisconsin in rear pocket. First physical geography of Wisconsin. Small fold tears on fold-out map. Text clean. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. State of Wisconsin hardcover
20024929480Oxford University Press 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2200grams ISBN:0195111079 Oxford University Press hardcover
20059541328Oxford University Press 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN:0199245908 Oxford University Press hardcover
20059544821Oxford University Press 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1300grams ISBN:9780199245901 Oxford University Press hardcover
