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Flora of Taiwan, Second edition, Volume Four (4) - Angiosperms - Dicotyledons [Diaspenciaceae-Compositae] by Editorial Committee - 1998

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Flora of Taiwan, Second edition, Volume Four (4) - Angiosperms - Dicotyledons [Diaspenciaceae-Compositae] by Editorial Committee - 1998

Flora of Taiwan, Second edition, Volume Four (4) - Angiosperms - Dicotyledons [Diaspenciaceae-Compositae]

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Taipei, 1998. Illustrated with 525 full page botanical line drawings and 502 small colour photographs, large very thick octavo, pp xiv, 1217, decorated cloth, a very slight crease to the spine, two faint impressions to the lower cover, slight sellotape residue to the upper cover. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. [Covers 36 families]. VERY SCARCE - 1500 copies only were printed.. Cloth. Very Good.
The Complete Book of Water Gardening

The Complete Book of Water Gardening

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Bracken Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Gardening; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 185170289X. ISBN/EAN: 9781851702893. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 9576. . 9781851702893 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Diccionario de medicacion herbaria : (la botica en el jardin)
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Diccionario de medicacion herbaria : (la botica en el jardin)

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262+[1 ad] pages with plates and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. 4th edition.
This work is a native botanical of medicinal plants, used by indigenous peoples of Latin America, with illustrations, descriptions and various uses of the plant.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America,… Read More
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Flora of New South Wales : Volume 2   (Vol Two)

Flora of New South Wales : Volume 2 (Vol Two)

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Sydney, Australia: New South Wales University Press, 1991. General wear to edges of jacket. Illustrated laminated boards. Contains a few university stamps. 574 pages with colour photos and line drawings. Describes 18 families, 216 genera and 1610 species including the large and well known families of Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutaceae and Fabaceae with their prominent genera of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Grevillea, Banksia, Boronia and various pea flowers. Heavy book (2.2kg). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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Collections towards a Flora of the Territory of Arkansas by Thomas Nuttall [Transactions of the...
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Collections towards a Flora of the Territory of Arkansas by Thomas Nuttall [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 5 New Series, Article VI]

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Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good +. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after coming to Philadelphia in the early 19th century. He spent much of the rest of his life studying the flora and fauna of the United States, publishing Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, heading the botanical gardens at Harvard University, and working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. This is one of several important papers of that were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound from a larger volume; final leaf largely detached from text block; minimal foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.
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Clay-Coloured Bunting: No.33 , PI. 161

by John James Audubon

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The Complete Book of Water Gardening

The Complete Book of Water Gardening

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Bracken Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Gardening; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 185170289X. ISBN/EAN: 9781851702893. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 9576. . 9781851702893 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Diccionario de medicacion herbaria : (la botica en el jardin)
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262+[1 ad] pages with plates and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. 4th edition.
This work is a native botanical of medicinal plants, used by indigenous peoples of Latin America, with illustrations, descriptions and various uses of the plant.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America,… Read More
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Flora of New South Wales : Volume 2   (Vol Two)

Flora of New South Wales : Volume 2 (Vol Two)

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Sydney, Australia: New South Wales University Press, 1991. General wear to edges of jacket. Illustrated laminated boards. Contains a few university stamps. 574 pages with colour photos and line drawings. Describes 18 families, 216 genera and 1610 species including the large and well known families of Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutaceae and Fabaceae with their prominent genera of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Grevillea, Banksia, Boronia and various pea flowers. Heavy book (2.2kg). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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Collections towards a Flora of the Territory of Arkansas by Thomas Nuttall [Transactions of the...
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Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good +. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after coming to Philadelphia in the early 19th century. He spent much of the rest of his life studying the flora and fauna of the United States, publishing Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, heading the botanical gardens at Harvard University, and working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. This is one of several important papers of that were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound from a larger volume; final leaf largely detached from text block; minimal foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.
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Clay-Coloured Bunting
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Clay-Coloured Bunting: No.33 , PI. 161

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Far East English-Chinese Pinyin Dictionary

Far East English-Chinese Pinyin Dictionary

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Trade Negotiations for a Better Free World Economy -- A Statement on National Policy by the Reseach and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development -- First 1st Printing

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International Presbyterian Church - Book of Church Order

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International Presbyterian Church - Book of Church Order

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Far East Illustrated 300 Chinese Character(Chinese Edition) (English and Chinese Edition)
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Far East Illustrated 300 Chinese Character(Chinese Edition) (English and Chinese Edition)

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History
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History

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Petroleum Geology of Southern Oklahoma Volume I: A Symposium; Sponsored By the Ardmore Geological Society

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Far East English-Chinese Pinyin Dictionary

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Buddhism A to Z
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Buddhism A to Z

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A Book of the Year 1992 (Book Seventy)

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Dallas, Texas: The Poetry Society of Texas, 1992. BP2 - Book has dog-eared page and light shelf wear otherwise very good. . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Flowers of Hawaii
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide

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Mushrooms of Northern California

Mushrooms of Northern California

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Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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The Microscope
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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art

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A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms:  Both Native  and Introduced, Found...

A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region

by Jesup, Henry G

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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I

Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I

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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones...

CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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HELVELLA MITZA [Elfin Saddle Mushroom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 556) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten...
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten [provenance: Wilhelm Nahlop, head gardener of Schloss Britz]

by Stein, Berthold

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Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.
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Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

by Stewart, C. S.; Acamovic, T.; Pennycott, T. W

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9780851996141
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Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing, 2004. Illustrated laminated boards. Usual library marks. 586 pages. Presents refereed and edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants, held in Scotland in August 2001. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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