Ericas in Southern Africa.
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Leather bound, one corner rubbed. Numbered collector's edition, limited to 400 copies, signed by the authors and the artists. More
Cape Town: Purnell and Sons, 1967. Octavo, colour plates, folding map. Leather bound, one corner rubbed. Numbered collector's edition, limited to 400 copies, signed by the authors and the artists. More
Canberra: ACIAR, 2013. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, softcover. There are nearly 300 species of Melaleuca in Australia and South-East Asia. This book is the first attempt to compile a comprehensive account of their taxonomy, essential oils, silvicultural characteristics and uses. Detailed descriptions and natural distribution maps are provided for each..... More
Kenthurst: Rosenberg, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. Triggerplants are not only found in Australia, but they reach their greatest diversity there. A few species have ranges which extend to India, China, or Japan, with several more in Papua New Guinea, but of the nearly two hundred identified species, the great..... More
London: New Holland Publishers, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. From the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia, this book showcases the most spectacular displays of wild blooms on the planet..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, they provide the oxygen we breathe, our food and beverages, spices and herbs, fibres, medicines, fuels, dyes and building materials. To enable botanists to identify plants they have been classified by physical features and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Hounds-tongue, Ragged robin, Costmary, and Pennyroyal all-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a...... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1978. first edition). Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, owner's stamp, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1973. third edition), Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Frenchs Forest: New Holland, 2002. Quarto, colour photographs, softcover. An exploration of traditional skills and a compendium of the kinds of foods eaten by Aborigines. More
Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 1967. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
Forestry Department, 1984. Quarto, text illustrations, softcover. More
Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, (2002. second edition). Quarto, black and white photographs, text illustrations, accompanying CD-ROM loosely inserted, as new in laminated boards. Incorporating phylogenetic principles and methods throughout, this text and CD-ROM moves from the careful explanation of phylogenetic methods and principles to the taxonomic survey of vascular plant families..... More
Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, (2000. second edition), Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More
Sofia: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, paperback, photographs, line drawings. Cercidiphyllum is a relict angiosperm bringing to us a flavor of Cretaceous Period. Its reproductive morphology was interpreted, in the spirit of the dominant evolutionary paradigm, as inflorescences of reduced flowers represented by solitary pistils and groups of stamens. Evolutionary significance of..... More
Diliman: University of the Philippines Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book presents the plants by family/genus, including those traditionally grown and some recently introduced plants and small fruit trees with fragrant flowers. A colour photograph of each plant and a description of its growth, form, and flowering habits..... More
Pymble: Angus and Robertson, (1991. second edition). Octavo, colour photographs, maps, signature, the copy of William T. Cooper, softcover. A concise, convenient form to facilitate quick and ready reference in the field. This field guide describes more than 180 plants - from the most tasty and significant plant foods of..... More
London: Macmillan, 1909. Octavo, text illustrations, bookplate. Publisher's cloth, corner of free front endpaper removed, otherwise a fine crisp copy. More
Sydney: Department of Mines and Agriculture, 1895-1898. Quarto, 28 chromolithographs. Early binder's quarter velum and pebbled cloth, gilt title, a few spots, publisher's coloured wrappers not retained, a pleasant copy. More
Bangkok: White Lotus, 1988. Octavo, colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. 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
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
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
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