The flowering of man: a Tzotzil botany of Zinacantan.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Quarto, paperback, text illustrations. WAS $75 A model study of the ethnobotany of a Mayan people. More
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Santos MEB Museum of Economic Botany.
Sydney: Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium, 2010. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. This beautiful book captures the life, history and restoration of what is possibly the last museum of its kind in the world. With 33 outstanding contributors the insightful essays and lavish illustrations will intrigue and fascinate..... More
Medicinal plants of Britain and Europe.
London: A & C Black, 2008. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, colour photographs. This compact guide covers over 350 species of plants, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. The images feature the leaves, flower head or berries to aid identification. Clear and concise information is provided, such as..... More
Bush food: Aboriginal food and herbal medicine.
Sydney: New Holland, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs. An exploration of traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines. More
Realizing nature's potential: Proceedings of the William L. Brown Symposium Honoring Dr Gordon Cragg.
St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 2011. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. "Realizing Nature`s Potential: The Once and Future King of Drug Discovery" was a two-day event held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in the fall of 2006 in honor of Dr Gordon Cragg. Dr Cragg, former chief of the Natural Products..... More
Medicinal plants: biodiversity and drugs.
London: 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 of..... More
Out of nature: why drugs from plants matter to the future of humanity.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. About half of all species under threat of extinction in the world today are plants. The loss of plant biodiversity is disturbing for many reasons, but especially because it is a reflection of the growing disconnect..... More
The healing forest: medicinal and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia.
Sydney: Portland Dioscorides Press 1990, Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, sunned spine, otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sturt pea: a most splendid plant.
Sydney: Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium, 2007. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. Sturt pea is one of the world's most striking and spectacular flowering plants. This richly illustrated book, full of interest for the general reader, covering the discovery of the Sturt pea by William Dampier and subsequent..... More
Systematics and conservation of African plants: proceedings of the 18th AETFAT Congress, Yaounde, Cameroon.
Sydney: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2010. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, maps, softcover. An edited volume based on the proceedings of the eighteenth Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa Congress held in Yaounde, Cameroon, "Systematics and Conservation of African Plants "includes one hundred research papers in..... More
Medicinal plants in Australia, volume three: plants, potions and poisons.
Sydney: Rosenberg Publishing, 2012. Large octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. WAS $90. The third of four volumes. There are obvious defences such as stinging nettle-like strategies, and burning or blistering latex resins. Others use different methods to incapacitate. They include gastrointestinal distress (vomiting or purgation), blindness, neurological disability, or even..... More
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