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Yokohama: The Yokohama Phytosociological Society, 1979. ( IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN) Main book is a compilation of articles (mostly in English) in honor of Prof. Tüxen. 495 pages. A hardcover book with rubbed boards and bumped corners. The supplementary book "Abhängiges Heft zur Vegetation und Landschaft Japans" contains the maps and tables. This is a semi hardcover (softcover) with some wear on corners. Both books are clean inside and solid. Good condition. (This overweight item weighing 2.1 kg will require additional postage that will vary according to the destination. You can contact the seller for a precise shipping quote.). Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Livre.
Flora Zambesiaca Volume One (parts 1 & 2), Volume Two (parts 1 & 2), Volume Three (part1), Volume Four, Volume 5 (part1), Volume Seven (parts 1 & 2), Volume Eight (part 3), Volume Nine (part 1) & Volume Ten (part 1) by Exell, A.W.; Launert, E. & Fernandes, A
by Exell, A.W.; Launert, E. & Fernandes, A
Flora Zambesiaca Volume One (parts 1 & 2), Volume Two (parts 1 & 2), Volume Three (part1), Volume Four, Volume 5 (part1), Volume Seven (parts 1 & 2), Volume Eight (part 3), Volume Nine (part 1) & Volume Ten (part 1)
by Exell, A.W.; Launert, E. & Fernandes, A
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Crown Agents and Flora Zambesiaca Managing Committee Illustrated with line drawings, 8vo, paperbacks, withdrawn duplicates from the Royal Horticultural Society Library, Wisley, with neat stamps on front endpapers and title pages, and small labels on spines or on upper covers. Good copies, with very little wear. [Very heavy - extra postage will be required). Paperback. Good.
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- Keywords flora. Mozambique.Malawi.Zambia.Zimbabwe.Botswana.africa.african.
Vegetation und Landschaft Japans. Festshrift für Prof. Drs. h. c. Reinhold Tüxen. + Abhängiges Heft.
by MIYAWAKI, A. / OKUDA, S (editors)
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The Complete Book of Water Gardening
by William Rae-Smith
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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)
by Urquieta Santander, Carlos
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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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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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Orchids Orquideas nativas de Colombia, Volumen 2: Elleanthus - Masdevallia
by Rodrigo R., Escobar
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Compania Litografica Nacional. HARDCOVER. 1991. 9586380319 :Medellin, Colombia: Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideolgia. Spanish language edition. Photography by Jorge Mario Munera B. Good in like jacket. Glossy leaves a little wavy, probably resulting from exposure to high-humidity but no adhesions nor musty odor. Pictorial Boards. Jacket a bit wavy and dust scratched but o/w Good, 288pp. 9586380319 . Good. 1st.
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The Biology of Parasitic Flowering Plants
by Kuijt, Job
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University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library w/usual markings; book has light edgewear, rear endpaper has 2 tiny soil marks, covers have discoloration marks from tape; DJ is price clipped, light creases to edges, 2 tape discoloration marks to interior spine that barely show through; DJ in protective Brodart cover; b/w photos & illus. ; 246 pages .
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Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, Volume II. F - Lichens : Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge
by Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Editor) / Guyot, Arnold (Editor)
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A. J. Johnson & Son. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1876. First Edition: First Printing. Leather. 1767 pages: 8.25 x 11 in.: 8.6: Vol. 2: KB#011376: "Illustrated with Maps, Plans, and Engravings. With Numerous Contributions From Writers of Distinguished Eminence in Every Department of Letters and Science in the United States and in Europe." Corners and edges of boards / spine are rubbed. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound (except for page block just starting to slightly separate at top of page ii) and sharp cornered (except as indicated). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. .
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The Day Of The Triffids
by Wyndham, John
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The Day Of The Triffids Michael Joseph Fourteenth Impression Thus. March, 1984 Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids, Michael Joseph, London. Original copyright 1951. Science Fiction, Horror. Original source material for the film of the same name. One of the creepiest stories you will ever read. Good/Good Price-clipped DJ. Dust jacket is black with large green and white titling and ornamentation. EX-LIB.
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Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings
by Henry David Thoreau
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Island Press, 1993. Hardcover in Slipcase. Used- Fine. Book is clean and tight. Slipcase shows light shelf wear. Book itself shows very minor wear, appears unread. No markings or highlighting on the inside of the book. Book includes an insert of a numbered original print (numbered 366/600). Limited edition book; this is number 366/600. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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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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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
by Allan Seiden
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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California
by Biek, David
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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
by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)
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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: From the Museum of Science and Art
by Dr. Lardner
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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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The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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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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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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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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The Last Days of Mankind A Tragedy in Five Acts
by KRAUS, Karl (Alexander Gode and Sue Ellen Wright, translators)
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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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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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