Search Results: Bryology and Algae from Mike Park Ltd

London: Academic Press, 1989. A few illustrations and charts, octavo, pp xii, 265, very clean internally, pictorial boards with the label of Dr Peter Moore on the upper cover. [The Alternation of Generations. Lipid Metabolism in Algae. The Formation and Interpretation of Plant Fossil Assemblages. Primary Productivity in the Shelf Areas of North-West Europe.]. First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1962. First reprint. Illustrated with line drawings, octavo, pp viii, 472, a very good copy indeed in a very slightly marked dustwrapper. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Marked.

London & New York: Chapman & Hall, 1992. Illustrated with a few charts, octavo, pp xvi, 256, pictorial boards, very good, virtually as new. ["Great progress has been made in the study of algal photosynthesis in the last decade. Until now, though, the literature has remained scattered. "Algal Photosynthesis" draws the latest information together by reviewing the conceptual background and available methodologies while interpreting the results of research. The book is organized in three parts. The first summarizes the current knowledge of gas exchange, a fundamental component in most biochemical, physiological, and ecological investigations of the algae. The second part describes available methods for measuring gas exchange during photosynthesis. The discussion of each technique includes an assessment of its sensitivity and accuracy, and a description of the limits and applications of the method. The third part places these measurements into a theoretical framework, considering… Read More

New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1917. Illustrated with a few simple line drawings, octavo, pp (107), uncut and unopened, a little dusty internally, paperback, covers very worn. A duplicate from Birmingham Botanical Garden (UK) with their stamp on the title page and shelf label on the upper cover. RARE . First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

British Bryological Society, 1950. Octavo, pp xxxi, [21], good clean copies bound in plain paper covers. Offprints from Trans.Br.Bryol.Soc. [The original owner has added a useful index of genera to each part] . [1950 - 1958]. Paperback. Very Good.

Oxford University Press, 1995. Illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings within the text, large octavo, pp x, 355, very slightly age-toned at the margins, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth, lower corner slightly bruised, otherwise a very good copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Amsterdam: Koninklijke nedewrlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 1980. Illustrated with 119 plates of line drawings, large octavo, pp 287, very clean internally, with the explanation of plates slip loosely inserted, green decorated cloth, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Colchester: Harley Books, 1991. Many distribution maps, but no further illustrations, octavo, pp 351, very clean internally, pictorial boards very good. . First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

Brighton: The Booth Museum of Natural History, 1991. Illustrated with small distribution maps, quarto, pp (6), 135, with small corrigenda slip mounted after the title page, paperback, ringbound, the bottom edge slightly marked otherwise a very good copy. . First Edition. Ringbound paperback. Very Good.

Amsterdam: Koninklijke nedewrlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 1966. Illustrated with 394 plates of line drawings, large octavo, pp 560, very clean internally, green decorated cloth, a very good copy in a poor dustwrapper. . Cloth. Very Good/Poor.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977. Second impression. Illustrated with line drawings, small slim octavo, pp 48, paperback, a very good copy.. Paperback. Very Good.

Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1981. Illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings, octavo, pp xii, 220, a neat signature om the half-title, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers age-toned and very slight signs of wear. . First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Oxford: Clarendon Press for The Systematics Association, 1986. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xii, 401, very clean internally, blue cloth, very good condition. [Biomineralization is a topic of interest to geologists and chemists, as well as to botanists and zoologists. This volume provides a discussion of the controls, processes, products, and functional significance of biomineralization in algae, protozoans, bacteria, and lichens.]. Cloth. Very Good.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. First edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 40, with 16 colour plates from Hedwig's "Descriptio...muscorum" of 1787-97, a very good clean copy internally, with pictorial boards designed by Paxton Chadwick, the spine fraying a little along the upper joint; in a dustwrapper which is lacking most of its spine and is a little faded. {From the collection of the Sussex nature writer "Ceres" {= Alison Ross = Alison Esplan} with her signature on the cover.}. [Postage will be reduced]. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by Johannes Hedwig.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. First edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 40, with 16 colour plates from Hedwig's "Descriptio...muscorum" of 1787-97, very good internally, with pictorial boards designed by Paxton Chadwick, the spine very slightly age-toned otherwise very good, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is faded and chipped on the spine. [Postage will be reduced.]. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Good/Slightly worn and faded. Illus. by Johannes Hedwig.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. First edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 40, with 16 colour plates from Hedwig's "Descriptio...muscorum" of 1787-97, very good internally, with pictorial boards designed by Paxton Chadwick, the spine slightly torn at the head, otherwise very good, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is a bit worn on the spine. [Postage will be reduced.]. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Good/Slightly worn and faded. Illus. by Johannes Hedwig.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. First edition. Small slim 12mo, pp 40, with 16 colour plates from Hedwig's "Descriptio...muscorum" of 1787-97, very slightly age-toned internally, and cracking slightly, with pictorial boards designed by Paxton Chadwick, lacking oart if the paper on the upper cover and on the spine label, the upper joint cracking but sound. [Postage will be reduced.]. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fair. Illus. by Johannes Hedwig.

Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1953. Illustrated with many line drawings and distribution maps, octavo, pp [327], extremely clean internally, blue cloth, lower corners very slightly bumped the cloth fore-edge slightly marked. [The rare original printing of the first part, published as Volume 42 number 2 of The American Midland Naturalist] .. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Vaduz: J. Cramer, 1977. Illustrated with many line drawings and distribution maps, octavo, pp [327]; [227], extremely clean internally, grey cloth, binding leaning very slightly, otherwise a very good copy. Very Scarce. [This Cramer reprint includes the second part, devoted to ecology, originally published in 1957.] . First Edition thus. Cloth. Very Good.

Weinheim: J. Cramer, 1966. Facsimile reprint. Three vols thick octavo, + one volume folio, pp xiv, 574; xl, 312, 378; cxxviii, 360, 422; + 528 plain illustrations, one small mark to the fore-edge of Volume III, otherwise a very good clean set weighing over 7 kilos before packing. EXTREMELY SCARCE [The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. It explored what is now called the Ross Sea and discovered the Ross Ice Shelf. On the expedition, Ross discovered the Transantarctic Mountains and the volcanoes Erebus and Terror, named after his ships. The Joseph Dalton Hooker made his name on the expedition. The expedition inferred the position of the South Magnetic Pole, and made substantial observations of the zoology and botany of the region. The expedition was the last major voyage of exploration made wholly under sail. Among the expedition's biological discoveries… Read More