Flowers of the Himalaya (Oxford India Paperbacks)
by Polunin, Oleg & Adam Stainton
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0195641876
- ISBN 13
- 9780195641875
- Seller
-
Reno, Nevada, United States
Item Price
A$147.35A$117.88
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1997. Half Leather. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Rebound in half leather of new paperback edition. ; Book Description; Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square and with minor wear. Published without Dust Jacket. This is the first book of its kind, helping readers to identify the wild flowers of the Himalaya, from Kashmir to Ladakh to the Nepal-Sikkim border in the east. The authors describe some 1500 species found mostly in the upper valleys, hills, and higher mountainous regions. The book includes over 690 color photographs of plants taken in the field, and hundreds of line drawings. It details where to go plant-hunting and at what seasons of the year. Also included are brief descriptions of types of climate, geology, soils, altitude effects, and the effects of people and animals on the vegetation of the region. ; Repr of 1984 ed; Color Photographs; 8.57 X 5.54 X 1.54 inches; 740 pages DC3.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Crossroads Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12040
- Title
- Flowers of the Himalaya (Oxford India Paperbacks)
- Author
- Polunin, Oleg & Adam Stainton
- Format/Binding
- Half Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195641876
- ISBN 13
- 9780195641875
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- FLOWERS, HIMALAYA, BOTANY
Terms of Sale
Crossroads Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Crossroads Books
Biblio member since 2016
Reno, Nevada
About Crossroads Books
eclectic inventory with antiquarian and modern, fiction and nonfiction
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.