Search Results: Authors starting with O from Mike Park Ltd

Beckenham: Henry Oakeley, 2016. Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 42, paperback. NEW. ["An A to Z of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts (some rude). A perfect present."]. J is for juniper, it's used to flavour gin, an aid to disinhibition and faciliating sin. R is for ranunculus, it always causes smiles, for the knobbly rootstock, was used to cure one's piles.. First Edition. Paperback. New.

London: Oakeley Books, 2011. Very well illustrated, small slim 8vo, pp 86, paperback, a very good copy. [An excellent little guide. Eighty nine species and a few hybrids with notes on their cultivation, habitats, and cultural requirements with 165 wonderful photographs for their easy identification.]. Paperback. New.

Washington: Agroforestry Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 1962. Illustrated with black and white photographs, small octavo, pp (2), 97, very clean internally, stapled paperback, the covers very slightly worn and age-toned. Scarce.. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Cape Town: Botanical Research Institute, Republic of South Africa, 1985. Illustrated with botanical line drawings and maps, large octavo, pp (6), 96, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn. [Includes the Commelinaceae and Eriocaulaceae.] . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 353, the first few pages are faintly creased vertically, top edge a little foxed otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very good, the dustwrapper is a little used and rubbed with one small tear, the front foldover is creased and price-clipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and rubbed.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Illustrated with eight plates, small octavo, pp 352, fore-edge a little foxed and very slight signs internally, otherwise clean internally, red cloth very slightly marked, the spine slightly faded and slightly pulled at the head. SCARCE. [Jane Elizabeth Digby, 1807 - 1881, was an English aristocrat, famed for her remarkable love life and lifestyle. She had four husbands and many lovers, including Lord Ellenborough, Governor-General of India, King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his son King Otto of Greece, Bohemian nobleman and Austrian statesman Prince Felix zu Schwarzenberg, and the Greek general Christodoulos Hatzipetros. She died in Damascus, Syria, as the wife of Arab sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: The London Phrenologial Institution Thirty-third edition, (not dated - c.1935 ?). Slim small octavo, pp 56, slightly worn, some turned corners, some annotations, paperback, slightly worn. [From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, his own copy from 1938, with the slightly depressing report of the assessor regarding his abilities !]. Paperback. Good.

Canberra: CSIRO, 1994. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographic plates, large octavo, pp xviii, 360, very slightly age-toned, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in a slightly wrinkled dustwrapper. [From the library of the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, with their label on the half-title, a stamp on the title page, a faint stamp on all three edges and a shelf number on the spine.] . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn.

Canberra: CSIRO, 1992. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographic plates, large octavo, pp xviii, 349, very clean internally, brown cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [From the library of RHS Lindley Library, with labels on half-title and title page and a small stamp on the top edge.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, 2006. Illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs, large octavo, pp xx, 450, paperback, a duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Library, with labels on front endpaper and half-title, a stamp on the title-page and a shelf number on the spine, but otherwise a remarkably bright copy, almost as new. [The introduction documents 200 years of research on Australian mosses; moss classification and an overview of morphology and sexuality; an account of ecology and biodiversity; the origin and evolution of mosses; fossil bryophytes; and a key to the more than 300 genera of mosses known from Australia and its island territories. The volume includes descriptions of 22 families, 42 genera and 238 species and infraspecific taxa, including synonymy, specimen citations and notes on habitat and distribution. Distribution maps are provided for each species and infraspecific taxon, as well as more than 50 pages of line-art illustrating habit and anatomy… Read More

Canberra: CSIRO, 1994. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographic plates, large octavo, pp xviii, 360, the top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [From the library of the RHS botanist Alan Leslie, with his bookplate opposite the half-title.] . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: Witherby & Co., 1910. Illustrated with maps, octavo, pp 347, age-toned and slightly worn internally, rebound in green cloth, slightly worn, spine head pulled. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1993. Very well illustrated, very large quarto, pp 400, very slight age-toning to the page margins, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very faintly marked, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Very heavy - extra postage may be needed. [A study of gardens and their history combines scholarship, detailed description and photography. This book is divided into thirteen sections, beginning with ancient Egypt and proceeding via the European Middle Ages, Renaissance Italy, France, England, the Iberian peninsula, Germany and Eastern Europe to 20th-century America. Parallel chapters treat China, Japan and the Islamic world. In each case, a historical account is followed by descriptions of surviving examples which can be visited today, thus creating in addition a guide to gardens all over the world, many - such as those in Poland and Russia - little known in the West. As restoration, research and publication unearth the great gardens of the past from the neglect of centuries,… Read More

Tokyo: Academia Scientific Book Inc, 1973. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 318, corners very slightly bumped, title page very slightly torn at fore-edge, a few pages slightly bumoed at fore-edge, paperback, covers slightly worn and frayed. [Ginkgoana Number 1]. SCARCE.. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

University Museum, University of Tokyo, 1988. Illustrated, large thick 8vo, pp xii, 386, paperback, a very good copy. Errata slip loosely inserted. SCARCE. [Contains ten major articles, including a cytotaxonomic study of himalayan Saxifraga, a revision of Pedicularis in Nepal, a revision of Asiatic species of Disporum, an enumeration of the pteridophytes of Nepal, wood structure of Himalayan plants etc]. A heavy book, postage may need to be increased.. Paperback. Very Good.

Weinheim, New York, Basel, Cambridge: VCH, 1991. Octavo, pp (8), 330, an exceptionally clean bright copy, hardback in laminated boards. [Chemistry, biology, physics, medicine: these and numerous other scientific and technical disciplines are linked to the field of ecology. This dictionary contains approximately 10 000 entries in English and German. Both translators and scientists will find it a valuable tool for reading and writing in the foreign language.]. First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1984. Illustrated with 16 plates of black and white photographs, small very thick quarto, pp x, 1067, the first ten pages a bit bruised at the lower corner, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition. [Very heavy - extra postage will be needed.]. Cloth. Very Good.

Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978. Illustrated with simple line drawings and photographs, small octavo, pp x, 105, very clean internally, paperback, only very slight signs of use to the covers. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Kobe: Hata Okamura, 1986. Illustrated with line drawings and mnochrome photogarphs, large octavo, pp (2), 171, lightly stained in the margins and pages rather damp-waved, paperback, the covers similar.. First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

Kobe: Hata Okamura, 1986. Illustrated with line drawings and mnochrome photogarphs, large octavo, pp (2), 171, paperback, the upper cover slightly curled, otherwise a good copy. . First Edition. Paperback. Good.