Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. WAS $35. Features an essay by orchid expert Mark Clements, accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations, both historical and modern. Includes works by around 25 artists, including the extraordinarily detailed lithographs of early botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bower, Ellis Rowan’s beautiful...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, text illustrations. WAS $80. This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Invaluable both because of its geographical setting and because of...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour illustrations, maps. Remainder mark. WAS $113. This is the first field guide dedicated to the diverse tree species of Panama and Costa Rica. Featuring close to 500 tropical tree species, this guide includes superb color photographs, abundant colour distribution maps, and...
Kenthurst: Rosenberg, 2002. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs. WAS $35. 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...
Sydney: Surrey Beatty, (1998. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations, keys. This book is an introduction to a study of Sydney sandstone flora. The text is supported by many explanatory illustrations and references to familiar and not-so-familiar plants.
Kew: Kew Publishing, 2005. Octavo, paperback, WAS $45. The palm family, considered to be second only to the grasses among monocotyledonous plants of economic importance, is of immense significance to man, especially among rural communities in the tropics, where wild palms are intensively utilised. The world checklist of palms is...
Berkeley: University of California, 2003. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour maps, text illustrations. WAS $106. Seagrasses, a group of about sixty species of underwater marine flowering plants, grow in the shallow marine and estuary environments of all the world's continents except Antarctica. This is the first authoritative and comprehensive global...
Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. WAS $40. This beautifully written book tells the story of Australia's giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash, which is the world's tallest hardwood. Visited seasonally by indigenous people and later a site of mining and sawmilling...
Melbourne: Inkata Press, 1992. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. WAS $44. A concise authoritative book about the background and procedures involved in this important method of weed control. It provides guidance on all aspects of a biological control project including the selection of the target weed; finding...
London: Archetype Publications, 2000. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations, maps. WAS $135.
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2007. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. WAS $195. An up to date checklist of one of the richest orchid floras, with one of the highest number of endemics in the world, with annotated diagnostic notes. A new edition of a now classic work...
Berkeley: University of California Press, (2006. third revised edition). Small quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. WAS $55. Foreword by David Attenborough. The reissue of this pioneering work highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage. It also demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and...
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, maps. WAS $19. In Australia only 0.5% of the original area of lowland grasslands remains in even semi-natural condition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Quarto, laminated boards, tables, graphs, remainder mark on bottom edge. WAS $214. To gain a more complete understanding of plant-based ecological community structure requires knowledge of the integration of direct and indirect effects in plant herbivore systems. Trait modification of plants as a result of...
Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white text illustrations. WAS $125. This book offers a definitive manual for the identification of the seaweeds that inhabit the deep offshore waters as well as the near shoreline and shallow water sounds from North Carolina to northern Florida. It provides...
North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2006. Octavo, dustwrapper, WAS $48. The epic story of an ancient, elusive herb with legendary curative powers that have enticed and mystified us for centuries. Prized for centuries by Chinese emperors, Native American healers, and black market smugglers, Ginseng launched the rise to power of China's...
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. WAS $40. Joan Webb has gathered together information on the development of an independent botany in Australia; the lives of the principal players as well as the fate of their collections. Illustrated with portraits and maps, her story starts with William...
