Search Results: Lichenology & Algae from Mike Park Ltd

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

Lugduni Batavorum: Westenium, 1769. Latin text throughout. Title page, dedication leaf, pp 506, (ii), with seven engraved folding plates and one folding table, (slight damage to the margin of the ornithological plate), a little age-toning generally, endpapers unevenly browned, but otherwise very clean internally, bound in full contemporary polished calf, slight wear at the corners, joints cracking slightly, lacking a small piece at the head of the spine. [The students whose names appear on the dissertations were not necessarily their authors; it was their function to present the dissertation and defend it in public debate, but the responsibility for the content of the dissertation was largely that of the professor, in this case Linnaeus. The fact that Linnaeus cited the Amoenitates as the place of publication for plant names he credited to himself indicates that he was generally the principal author of the work. At the end of this volume is a list of "Editiones operum auctoris", including… Read More

Cambridge: Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, 1982. Illustrated with 176 distribution maps, tall quarto, paperback, covers very slightly worn, but a good copy. . Paperback. Very Good.

Krakow: Wladislaw Szafer Institute of Botany, 2004. Illustrated with distribution maps, slim quarto, pp 112, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn and curled. [Bilingual English/Polish]. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Edward Arnold, 1974. Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, a tiny initial on the front endpaper otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is faded, slightly frayed on the spine. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Faded and slightly worn.

London: Edward Arnold, 1974. Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, very clean internally, paperback, covers faded at the spine but otherwise only slightly worn. . Second 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.

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.

London: The Ray Society, 1851. Illustrated with 30 hand coloured plates, octavo, pp 100, 18, 3, a rather shabby ex-library copy, with embossed stamps on the plates and elsewhere, some foxing, cloth worn and lacking the spine. . First Edition. Cloth. Poor.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. Illustrated with colour plates and line drawings, octavo, pp 232, very slightly used internally, green cloth a bit stained, in a slightly worn and age-toned dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. Illustrated with 12 colour plates and many line drawings in the text, small octavo, pp 232, fore-edge very slightly marked, very slightly used internally, green cloth slightly marked at the base of the spine otherwise very good, in a lightly worn and faded dustwrapper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn. Illus. by Ernest V. Petts.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Ltd, 1910. Fourth edition. Illustrated with small line drawings in the text, small octavo, pp 32; 30; 32, slightly worn internally, a signature and date on the front endpaper, soft cloth slightly worn & creased.. Soft Cloth. Good.

London: The Ray Society, 1851. Illustrated with 30 hand coloured plates, octavo, pp 100, 18, 3, a little dull and used internally, a contemporary inscription on the front endpaper, original cloth, a little rubbed and worn, the spine head slightly pulled and with a small split at the rear joint. . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer, 1963. Octavo, a folding map at the rear, pp viii, 207, very clean internally, green cloth, slightly faded. [David Hawksworth's copy, with his tiny stamp on the front endpaper, his blindstamp on the title page, and a few neat annotations.] . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: The Natural History Museum, 2002. Small slender quarto, pp (43), paperback, very good. [Forms the major part of Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Botany, Volume 32 number 1; which also includes Ellis' Taxonomic Notes on some African species in the family Calymperaceae and Baldini & Jarvis' Typification of Ranunculus bullatus].. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1954. Large octavo, pp 184, uncut and unopened, age-toned but otherwise very good internally, paperback with opaque cellophane protection, a very good copy.. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Botanical Society of the British Isles, 1986. Illustrated with line drawings and maps throughout, 12mo, pp 140, an owner's tiny label inside the front cover, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly used and faded. [The standard identification guide for British species of Stonewort - Chara, Nitella, Tolypella. Descriptions of 39 species and varieties. Line drawings by Margaret Tebbs.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Ambleside: Freshwater Biological Association, 1991. Small slim octavo, pp 40, paperback, a very good clean copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.