Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1990. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Haloragaceae and Thymelaeaceae make up the major part of this volume. Haloragaceae (the Raspworts and Milfoils) are a ubiquitous group of over 100 species found almost throughout the continent in a range of habitats, including freshwater. Thymelaeaceae... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume is the first for nearly 50 years to provide a full description of the 513 species making up this diverse, yet familiar, genus. Many species are described here for the first time. Angophora, the closely... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1985. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1992. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986. Octavo, text illustrations, paperback, signature. More
![Flora of Australia, volume 49. Oceanic islands [part one].](/pictures/thumb/17720.jpg?v=1545296687)
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This is the first of two volumes covering the vascular floras of Australia's offshore island territories. It covers Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island, both in the Tasman Sea. An introduction to the geography, physical features, climate, history... More
![Flora of Australia, volume 49. Oceanic islands [part one].](/pictures/thumb/1603.jpg?v=1543889770)
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994. Octavo, illustrations, paperback. This is the first of two volumes covering the vascular floras of Australia's offshore island territories. It covers Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island, both in the Tasman Sea. An introduction to the geography, physical features, climate, history of human habitation... More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Octavo, text illustrations,very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984. Octavo, text illustrations, owner's signature, paperback. More
Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in blemished dustwrapper. More
![Flora of Australia, volumes 17A, Proteaceae [part two]: Grevillea [and] 17B, Proteaceae [part three]: Hakea to Dryandra.](/pictures/thumb/40481.jpg?v=1545004880)
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1999-2000. Octavo, text illustrations, fine set in dustwrappers, scarce. Volumes 17A and 17B together complete the treatment of the subfamily Grevillioideae, with over 640 species in tribe Grevilleae (Grevillea, Hakea) and tribe Banksieae (Banksia, Dryandra, Musgravea and Austromuellera). Grevillea and Banksia are conspicuous components of the Australian flora... More
London: Bombay Natural History Society, 1886-1892. Octavo, volumes one to seven (bound in four), numerous coloured and uncoloured lithographic plates, very scarce. contemporary half calf, some wear but a very good set. The Bombay Natural History Society was established in 1883 and is now India's largest and longest running natural... More
Sydney: Department of Primary Industries, 2018. Octavo, spirally bound, colour photographs, maps, line drawings. This is an easy to use reference to the non-grass plants, including legumes, ferns, sedges, rushes and other herbs identified by flower colour. The book contains colour photographs and distribution maps for each species and notes... More
Melbourne: Shell Company of Australia, 1950. Octavo, photographs, colour plates, publisher's coloured wrappers. First published 1932. More
Melbourne: Shell Company of Australia, [1932. first edition]. Octavo, photographs, colour plates. Publisher's coloured wrappers, with interesting cuttings and ephemera tipped in. This is almost certainly the first edition although there is nothing to indicate this except a newspaper cutting dated 1930. Presumably there are differences in the text to later printings. More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. This book presents some fifty of Adams' finest photographs of trees - a wide range of imagery from towering redwood groves to flowering orchards; majestic pine forest to leafy deciduous woods; wood and bark details to gnarled... More
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner, 1889. Quarto, 31 lithographed plates (twelve coloured). Modern red binder's cloth, partly unopened, a fine copy. A scarce and attractive work on Australian seaweeds. More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, illustrations. Planting Dreams celebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Internationally renowned garden historian Richard Aitken explores the environmental and social influences that have helped produce our unique gardening culture - from Indigenous land management and the earliest European... More
Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2007. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. Australia's long-unresolved forest conflict has been the make-or-break factor in federal elections, with both parties often arguing that the four-decade-old forest conflict has no practical solution. This work proposes a forest policy for Australia, calling on individuals in... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 116. In the past, emphasis has mainly been placed on ways to protect cultivated plants from attack or damage, nowadays our over-reliance on pesticides has been replaced by a far more enlightened approach to plant protection. While... More
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. This must-have reference will help all gardeners navigate the complex world of science. It defines more than 6,000 words from 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, from abscission (a plant's rejection of an... More