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195910352Crown Agents 1959. Supplement to Flora of West Tropical Africa 2nd edition. Fine/Fine. Bound in green buckram Scarcely used; gilt title on spine. Owner's stamp on front pastedown. Fore-edge somewhat roughly trimmed. 2 89 pp. Crown Agents 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
193433680Cambridge University Press 1934. Historiae Naturalis Classica ediderunt J. Cramer et H.K. Swann. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers lacking dust jacket In modern green buckram. Exquisitely illustrated with text figures by the author. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1947022673Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press 1947. Two volumes large octavo pp xii 1030 with 205 botanical line drawings and 36 photographic plates very clean internally green cloth in very good condition in frayed and chipped dustwrappers which are lacking a few ;pieces. A duplicate from Cambridge Botanic Garden Library with a stamp on each title page and on the bottom edge. Together with his earlier 1942 paper - Systematics Cytogenetics and Evolution in Crepis. Very heavy - extra postage will be needed.Babcock was an American plant geneticist who pioneered the understanding of plant evolution in terms of genetics. He is particularly known for seeking to understand by field investigations and extensive experiments the entire polyploid apomictic genus Crepis in which he recognize 196 species. He published more than 100 articles and books explaining plant genetics including the seminal textbook with Roy Elwood Clausen Genetics in Relation to Agriculture. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Rather worn and frayed. University of California Press Hardcover
1839021835London Cambridge Bath Paris & Leipzig: Longman & Co; H. Bailliere; G. Barraclough; E. Collings; J.A.G. Weigel 1839. 12mo pp xvi 132 rather age-toned and a bit marked internally pp xiii/xiv curiously spotted one tiny hole on the title page pencil notes on the rear endpaper and occasionally internally original cloth-backed boards a bit worn lacking the label. Ther are two tiny bookseller's tickets on the front endpaper - the original one of C. Le Feuvre Jersey and a later one of J.W. Mason & Son St Leonards on Sea. A contemporary owner's small stamp on the preface page and also on verso of the title page through which it can be seen. . First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fair. Longman & Co; H. Bailliere; G. Barraclough; E. Collings; J.A.G. Weigel Hardcover
1987021172Wallingford: CABI International 1987. Large thick octavo pp 4 534 illustrated with a few diagrams only very clean internally paperback the covers have just slight signs of use. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. SCARCE. First British edition. Paperback. Very Good. CABI International Paperback
201138375Natural History Publications Borneo / KFBG 2011. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket As new. Natural History Publications (Borneo) / KFBG hardcover
1961018923Michigan: Ann Arbor 1961. Illustrated small octavo pp vi vi 561 ix very clean internally but the title page and the inside cover have adhered slightly at some point with slight damage paperback covers slightly marked and worn. Now very scarce The Asa Gray Bulletin N.S. Vol III numbers 3-4. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Ann Arbor Paperback
18924312728Thacker Spink and Co 1892. 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. Large 12mo dark green cloth binding with black decoration. Heavy shelf wear bumped corners. Front hinge split binding relatively firm. Illustrative frontispiece. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: Thacker, Spink, and Co hardcover
1986015816London: Academic Press & Linnean Society 1986. Illustrated large octavo pp xvi 443 some foxing on the top and fore edge otherwise very clean internally blue cloth in very good condition a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. Proceedings of a Joint International Symposium of the Systematics Association and the Linnean Society held in London . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Academic Press & Linnean Society Hardcover
1979014737Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer-Verlag 1979. Illustrated octavo pp xiv 188 half-title faintly marked a signature on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally green decorated cloth very slight signs of wear to the corners spine a little faded but overall a very good copy. VERY SCARCE. Cloth. Very Good. Springer-Verlag Hardcover
1926017743London: Longman Brown & Co. Ltd 1926. First edition. Illustrated with line drawings in the text octavo pp xx 224 slight age-toning otherwise clean and sound internally original buckram very slightly worn the spine faded. From the library of the Kew botanist Jan Gillett with his private library number on the spine and on the front endpaper. Gillett was a notable authority on tropical African botany. First Edition. Buckram. Good. Longman, Brown & Co. Ltd Hardcover
1981023190Melbourne: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1981. 1981 - 1982. Well illustrated with 250 colour plates after watercolours by Stan Kelly with extensive descriptive text two volumes large octavo very clean internally green cloth in very good condition the dustwrappers are just very slightly worn. A heavy set - extra postage will be needed. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Illus. by Stan Kelly. Thomas Nelson & Sons Hardcover
1986020604London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1986. Large octavo pp 6 389 the date of 1986 has been added to the title page in ink otherwise very clean internally paperback the covers very slightly worn and with slight creases to the top cover. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Her Majesty's Stationery Office Paperback
2005010190Hatfield South Africa: Umdaus Press 2005. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION - Number 1311 of 2000. Well illustrated by Gillian Condy and Murray Ralfe large tall quarto pp xii 156 a very good new copy in dustwrapper in slipcase. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. Cloth in slipcase. New/New. Umdaus Press Hardcover
19808644Edinburgh: H.M.S.O. 1980-82. Notes from the R.B.G. Edinburgh 391 & 39 2. V.g./No Jacket. Paper covers A revision of sects. Rhododendron Pogonanthum and subg. Hymenanthes. Edinburgh: H.M.S.O. unknown
19873719732Chapman And Hall 1987. 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 item850grams ISBN:9780412257506 Chapman And Hall hardcover
017618Pretoria: Department of Agricultural Technical Services 1975 - 1976. Two volumes large octavo pp 4 1040 not illustrated very slight age-toning internally green cloth very slightly worn and marked the spine of the first volume slightly bruised. From the library of the botanist Bill Burtt with his signature in each volume. Cloth. Good. Department of Agricultural Technical Services Hardcover
19393738328Charles Scribner's Sons 1939. 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. Loose binding. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1450grams ISBN: Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1896023396London: Sampston Low Marston & Company Limited 1896. With 15 text illustrations small octavo pages viii 135 iv a contemporary signature on the front endpaper - Thomas Sheppard very clean internally. Pictorial printed boards the corners worn a little slightly rubbed; red cloth spine very slightly worn. 16 pages of the main text are devoted to detailed descriptions of recommended cultivars. Farini then lists cultivar descriptions extracted from the catalogues of specialists such as John Laing & Sons H.J. Jones Sutton's John R. Box and Clibrans. The date of 1896 is confirmed in the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library Catalogue. RARE. Farini Guillermo Antonio 1838-1928 = William Leonard Hunt also known by the stage name The Great Farini was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist entertainment promoter and inventor as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive. He also published under the name Guillermo Antonio Farini. He performed many feats on high wires above the Niagara Falls but had to be rescued when attemting to do it on stilts! His life story reads like a Boys Own adventure novel ! Horticulture appears to have come late when he retired to Forest Hill London in 1890. He obviously bred his own Begonias as many bear his name. After 1899 he and his second wife the first had fallen from his shoulders from a high-wire! moved to Germany USA and finally settled in Canada. One of his unpublished works is a twenty-volume history of the first world war. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Sampston Low, Marston & Company, Limited Hardcover
1881021714Breslau: J.U. Kern 1881. Octavo pp 571i a little age-toned but otherwise tight and clean contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards slightly worn the spine creased. A flora of Silesia. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersem with his bookplate and also the cancelled label of Botaniska Institutionernas Bibliotek. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. J.U. Kern 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
199644636Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 1996. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Paper covers Scarcely used. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew unknown
2000020384Cape Town: The Botanical Society of South Africa 2000. Well illustrated octavo pp xii 188 an owner's neat signature on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally stiff laminated covers a very good copy. REMARKABLY SCARCE. . First Edition. Laminated paperback. Very Good. The Botanical Society of South Africa Paperback
1963018875Osaka: Hoikusha Publishing Co. 1963. Well illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. large octavo pp 169 very clean internally blue cloth in good condition in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. SCARCE. Japanese text but Latin names and English explanations of the photographs and English botanical index. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Hoikusha Publishing Co. Hardcover