Flowering plants of the Galapagos.
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A compact field guide to the plant life of the area. More
Ithaca: Comstock Publishing, 1999. Octavo, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. A compact field guide to the plant life of the area. More
Poole: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Corners bumped. A beautifully illustrated overview of the twenty three species of pitcher plant (Nepenthes) from Cambodia, Southern China, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. A number of species featured in this work are newly discovered recently, and..... More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1983. Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
London: "Cage Birds". (1952. third edition, reprint). Small octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1951-1967. Octavo, three volumes, folding map. Catalogue and first supplement in publisher's cloth, second supplement in wrappers. More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, (2018. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, text illustrations. This Second Edition has been revised and expanded to describe 133 plants from the montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones, categorising them into five easily distinguished groups: herbs, daisy herbs, low woody shrubs, tall shrubs and trees, and eucalypts..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2014. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. The latest publication from the "Botanical Magazine" Monograph series, this is a fully illustrated guide to the heather species that grow naturally in the Northern Hemisphere. Covered in detail are the distribution, classification, and conservation of..... More
London: Little, Brown, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, maps. For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants from African countries into pharmaceuticals, resulting in many long and enduring conflicts. In this book, Osseo-Asare draws on public records and extensive interviews with..... More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. This book puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing behaviours inconsistent with the..... More
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. First published in 1939, this beautifully imaginative book is a classic of nature writing. Tracing the evolution of plant life from the appearance of the earliest micro-organisms to the rise of the modern floras, the book is part natural..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2021, Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations. Melds scientific and cultural knowledge with stunning photography to present a new way of looking at fungi. It models 'ecological foraging' an approach based on care, conservation and a deep understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Sections on where, when and how to..... More
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2006. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Borneo is one of the most exciting places to study the richness of plant life on Earth and home to more than 300 ginger species. Etlingera is among the most diverse and attractive of the genera found there;..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1998. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, line grawings, maps. The proceedings of the Economic Botany and the International Society of Ethnopharmacology conference, London, 1996, exploring the commercial and scientific potential of plants for food, health and drug industries. It focuses on the current state..... More
Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, photographs, text illustrations, maps, graphs, tables. This volume provides a contemporary overview of new strategies for traditional medicine development. It looks at the importance of cataloguing ethnomedical information, of determining the active principles, and of examining the genetic diversity and range..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of the most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by habitat, covering woods, downs..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. The lily is a flower of contradictions. It represents both life and death, appearing at weddings and funerals. In their pure white form, lilies are a symbol of innocence, chastity and purity of heart, but..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1953. second edition). Ocatvo, text illustrations, signature, stamp, a very good copy in chipped dustwrapper. More
London: L Reeve and Co, 1896. Octavo, 16 chromolithographic plates, early binders cloth. This is presumably a section from 'The Hymenoptera Aculeata Of The British Islands' without the title page and only 16 of the 51 plates. The Hymenoptera Aculeata Of The British Islands By Saunders, E London: L. Reeve..... More
Melbourne: Lothian, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Singapore: Singapore Science Centre, (2002. reprint). Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Singapore Science Centre Guidebook # 23. A handy pocket guide with colour photographs and brief descriptions of the wildflowers of Singapore. More
Sydney: A H and A W Reed, 1979. Quarto, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Castlemaine: Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests, 2021. Small octavo, paperback, colour photographs. More