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Features: Birds of Paridise of Papua New Guinea; Quest for an 8,000-meter peak; African Wildlife Conservation - The Eleventh Hour; Rio Azul - Maya City of the Dead; Antarctic Search for Meteorites; Projeto Flora Expedition to Araca, Brazil; On the Desert Trail of Lawrence of Arabia; Natural History Guide to Tropical Isles and Seas. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Solar Eclipse of 1980 - scientists race totality; Devils, Quolis, Dunnarts and Thylacines - a survey of Tasmanian mammals; Journey into Northern China - impressions of a scientist; A Geologist in Alaska - John C. reed on 45 years in the boondocks; Nebraska Miocene Giant Turtle - complete skeleton reveals new species; Niger - Tenere Expedition - geographical and archeological observations; Transglobe Expedition Now in Antarctica - British explorers circling globe on polar axis; Exploring Canada's Ellice River - observing Arctic tundra flora and fauna; New support for Archeological Discovery; Malaysia-Singapore Waterway Border - United Nations Law of the Sea problems. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
35 pages. Black and white photos in text. Features: Our business premises; Autobiography of a Great Anthropologist - Noel Robinson; The Pleistocene Age of British Columbia; The Tuatara; The Flora of Fairmont Hot Springs; The Passenger Pigeon; Reverend Jonathan Green; The Burnaby Lodestone. Average wear. Unmarked. Moisture marks to lower portion of all pages and covers. A sound copy. Book
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 132pp., ex-library copy with stamps, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut.
Third edition, xii, 597, [1]pp., early signature of Charles Symonds Litchfield, some light foxing, 7 plates (one large folding), later cloth.
First edition, 8vo (195 x 122mm), xxix, 249pp., engraved frontis., text lightly browned, orig. green embossed cloth, spine faded and lettered in gilt, joints worn with a couple of tears.
Hardcover, 263 pages, English, 290 x 210 mm, 759 color photographs, 80 genera, 744 species and hybrids, with dustjacket, the book itself is practically as new, . ISBN 9789748750873. The most highly coveted of ornamental plants the delicate, exotic and graceful orchid represents love, luxury, beauty and strength. In ancient Greece, orchids were associated with virility. In fact, Greek women believed that if the father of their unborn child ate large, new orchid tubers, the baby would be a boy. If the mother ate small orchid tubers, she would give birth to a girl. The flower symbolism associated with the orchid is love, beauty, refinement, many children, thoughtfulness and mature charm. Orchids have become a major market throughout the world. Buyers now bid hundreds of dollars on new hybrids or improved ones. Orchids are one of the most popular cut flowers on the market. Orchids is also one of the most desired plants suitable such a gift. Telling your loved ones about the special history behind these flowers can only enhance them. Orchids have been apt greeting flowers for different occasions unlike roses. Even though roses are cheaper, an orchid enjoys a higher status when compared with roses. Orchids have enduring qualities, which make it best for greeting flowers than any other. This enduring flower can hang around your affection and a sense of security for a longer period that no other floral gift can provide.
4to., Second Edition, with 28 plates, and very numerous illustrations and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Nice copy of the revised version of Godwin's standard reference, first published in 1956.
ill., ril. Una vasta ricerca che percorre due secoli di storia botanica e presenta, con oltre duemila fotografie e cartine, un quadro completo e aggiornato della flora spontanea del territorio lariano.
PARIS, J.J. Dubochet, Lechevalier et cie - 1847 - 2 Volumes in-8 - Reliure éditeur - 1 & 4 plats décorés : cathédrale ND et rosace couleur or sur fond noir avec décors repoussés- Titre doré avec date 1847 - 320 figures, illustrations et cartes (certaines couleurs pp et HT), 371 tableaux Préface XV - 2751 pages + Index alphabétique 124 + Table analytique desmatières XLIII - Beaux Exemplaires - Envoi rapide et soigné.
xx + 222pp.illustrated with 20 reproductions in colour from paintings by H.A. Olivier and 40 half-tone plates from photographs by E.J. Wallis, 27cm., hardcover (editor's cloth binding with gilt lettering, corners bit bumped, some traces of use), gilt upper edges, few foxing, V81628
Illustrated cardboard cover, 170 x 260mm., 108pp., profound b/w illustration. The Cactus and Succulent Journal 1968 Yearbook. In good condition.
Caen, Imp. Henri Delesques / Rouen, Lestringant - 1906 - Soixante Treizième Année - In-8 - 1/2 chagrin rouge - Dos à nerfs orné - Couverture conservée - LXIV & 575 pp. y compris Table - Très bel exemplaire
136pp + 3 planches hors-texte, publié dans et extrait de "Nouveaux mémoires de l'Académie Royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles" Tome IX (9, 1835), in-4, qqs. rousseurs, premières pages peu tachées (pas dans le texte), sinon en bon état, W104128
Milano, Hoepli, 1932, 8vo leg. orig. t.tela (stinta) pp. 302 con 141 fig. n.t. + 221 fig. cromolit. in 30 tav. f.t.
304pp.+ 27 planches hors-texte, publié dans et extrait de "Mémoires couronnés et mémoires des savants étrangers publiés par l'Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique" Tome LVII (1898-1899), in-4, non coupé
256pp.+ 23 planches hors-texte, Mémoire présenté à la classe des sciences le 15 décembre 1882, publié dans et extrait de "Mémoires couronnés et mémoires des savants étrangers publié par l'Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique" Tome XLVII (47), in-4, non coupé
Bound in green cloth, illustrated dustjacket, frontispice, 215 x 285mm., 316pp., very profound colour illustration, maps. Including a full set of botanical drawings by the artists of the Bolus Herbarium of the University of Cape Town, and others, and also distribution maps for each genus, identification keys, a scientific system, a contribution concerning the poisonous genus, and also a history of the introduction, with notes on and portraits of the various scientific workers from the beginning to the present day ( 1973 ). Good condition.
PARIS, Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique - 1902/1907 - Complet en 2 volumes - 1/2 Reliure - Dos à nerfs - T.I) 141 figures dans le texte , 351 pages - T. II) 71 figures dans le texte, 360 pages - bon exemplaire
ST-BRIEUC, L. Prud'Homme - 1854 -In-12 - Deuxième édition, revue & augmentée - Reliure vélin - Toutes tranches rouges -XII-303 pages - légères rousseurs - Bon exemplaire
PARIS, E. Orlhac - 360 pages., dont 122 pages de tableaus synoptiques illustrés, + 377 figures. Le tout formant un ensemble de 881 figures, + une carte de l'Algérie. Relié toile - Bel exemplaire.. Ouvrage précédé de notions de botanique appliquée à la Sylviculture, et accompagné de clefs permettant la détermination en hiver des essences à feuilles caduques et la reconnaissance des principaux bois.
[10] + 8 + 130pp., First printed edition of Linneaus manuscript kept in the library of the Royal Unviersity of Uppsala, text in Latin, original lithographed softcover and title page, 24cm., most pages still uncut, spine slightly damaged and repaired, good condition, W94947
TOURS, Alfred Mame Et Fils, 1869 - In-8 - Débroché - Frontispice - Illustrations Nb en texte & PP HT de Gerlier & Freeman - rousseurs - 356 pages PARIS, Baillière et fils, 1902. - E.O. - In-8 - Débroché - Manque 1 er plat - XI- 538 pages . - figures dans le texte - Propre intérieurement
PARIS, Madame Huzard, 1838 - Reliure 1/2 veau de l'époque (frottée) -Dos lisse orné - In-12 - cinquième édition du premier manuel agricole connu (la première est datée de Nancy, impr. de Haener : 1821) - XV-602 pages -3 grandes planches dépliantes - rousseurs - Envoi rapide - Réf. 47233
98pp., illustré avec des tables, publié dans et extrait de "Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique" Tome XXI (21), in-4, non coupé, B57771
