Botany Books

Berlin and Hamburg: Paul Parey, 1989. A few illustrations, large thick 8vo, pp 477, paperback, a very good copy. [Breeding methods, Genome Organization, Mutagenesis, Breeding for Disease Resistance, Proprietary Rights for New Plant Material, Low-Input and Stress Tolerance in breeding, Genetic Mechanisms for Hybrid Breeding, Applications of Biotechnology to Breeding.] . (more information)

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Pittsburgh: Hunt Library, 1973. (Issued to commemorate the opening of the Strandell Collection of Linnaeana at the Hunt Botanical Library). pp 70, illus, facsimile of 'Orbis Eruditi Judicium' in pocket at rear, brown cloth backed marbled boards, very good. . (more information)

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Antwerp, 1989. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 144, dustwrapper, good copy. ("Een bijzondere wereld aan planten". Dutch text. A guide to the work of the Tuinen Botanic Garden). . (more information)

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With 12 fine colour plates, original wrappers, very good. (Includes the Genus Arisarum by Peter Boyce, and portraits of Hoya, Iris, Bromeliads, Geranium etc.) . Illus. by Benstead, Mary; Farrer, Ann ; Price, Valerie; Sellers, Pandora; Bates, Mary ; Goaman, Victoria; King, Christabel. (more information)

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Edinburgh: HMSO, 1978. Illustrated with line drawings and maps, 8vo, pp 211-464, softcover, very slightly worn. Including the separate general index for Volume 36. (Contents of this Part includes: The genus Wurmbea in Africa except the Cape Region; A key to Commicarpus; A revision of the genus Diogenesia; A new species of Wettinia and notes on the genus; A new species of Curcuma from Thailand; Alpinia sect. Pycnanthus and its New Guinea species; Nomocharis pardanthina; Plate tectonics and Angiosperm distribution; Patio ludens and extinction of plants; A discussion on taxonomic rank and affinity; The inflorescence of Dillenia; Transitions from pair-flowered to normal cymes in Gesneriaceae; Phyllomorphic organisation in rosulate Streptocarpus; "Fusion" and "Continuity" in floral morphology;The geographical distribution of Compositae native to natal;The Flora of Pakistan:some general and analytical remarks; Patterns of distribution and endemism in Iran.) . (more information)

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London: L. Reeve & Co., 1876. The first 83 pages comprise a history of botany. 8vo, pp xviii, [2], 236, fore-edge is foxed, and also the first and last few pages, original blindstamped green cloth, lettered in gilt, upper cover slightly faded, spine very slightly rubbed, but otherwise a rather bright copy, a duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley, with their neat label on the front endpaper, but no other markings. . (more information)

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Glasgow: Combe & Thomson, 1900. Volume II. With 5 plates, pp 156, uncut, endpapers foxed, original parchment boards, a little worn but sound. [Includes Boyd Watts "Scottish Forests and Woodlands in Early Historic Times", and articles on Pollok Wych Elms, Plants of the Kenmuir District, Clydesdale Mosses and Fungi, Natural History of Ailsa Craig etc.] . (more information)

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London: The New Phytologist, 1930. pp (64), reprinted from New Phytologist, cloth-bound, a very good copy. . (more information)

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Illustrated with black-and-white plates and line drawings, 8vo, pp viii, 259, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [The 12 contributors to this volume cross diciplines to unravel the secrets of nectaries - the nectar-secreting organs at the base of flowers. An ecologists' field study reveals the locale of nectiferous tissues for the morphologist to describe. The physiologist's data provide the mechanism for an evolutionist's hypothesis. Essays include: The Ultrastructure of Floral and Extrafloral Nectaries; Nectar Production in a Tropical Ecosystem; Patterns of Nectar Production and Plant-Pollinator Coevolution; A Brief Historical Review of the Chemistry of Floral Nectar; The Ecology of Nectar Robbing; Extrafloral Nectaries: Their Structure and Distribution; Nectaries in Agriculture, with an Emphasis on the Tropics; Studying Nectar? Some Observations on the Art.] [Original publisher's price $72.50] . (more information)

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London: Plenum Press, 1975. Octavo, pp x, 216, a very bright copy in very slightly creased dustwrapper. [Contains the papers read at an international conference at Kew, 1973. Herbarium records, Data Processing for Flora of Veracruz, Data Bank of the British Antarctic Survey, Flora North America information system, Living Plant record System at RBG Edinburgh etc.). (more information)

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London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1904. pp xviii, 442, hinge at title page slightly weak, cloth slightly worn, spine head pulled. [John Lewis' copy] SCARCE . (more information)

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London: West, Newman & Co.. Five volumes of this very scarce journal. A few plates, 8vo, duplicates originally from Bournemouth Natural Science Society, but subsequently in the Hunt Library with their withdrawn stamp, green cloth, not matching, [Volume XXIX is original cloth, the others have been bound in plain green cloth) Vol XXXIhas a worn spine. [One volume bears the signature of E.F. Linton, author of the Flora of Bournemouth. . (more information)

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925. Portrait frontispiece of Sir David Prain, with tissue guard, plus two colour plates of Streak Disease of Sugar Cane, large octavo (approximately 9 inches by 6.5 inches), pp xv, 390, dark green cloth (slightly rubbed) with gilt lettering, published by Cambridge University Press, 1925. Contents include reports of discussions relating to Plant Physiology, Genetics, Plant Pathology and Mycology, Systematic Botany and Ecology, Rules of Nomenclature, Education and Research. This is a duplicated library copy but, apart from two small labels on the front paste-down endpaper and a small faint library stamp on the front free endpaper, it is a good sound copy of a rather scarce volume, giving an insight into the state of botanical investigation at the end of the first quarter of the 20th Century. . First Edition.. (more information)

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1965. Reprint, from Huntia 2, (1965), pp (29) with 2 illustrations, large 8vo, paperback in blue-grey wrappers, very slightly worn. [Postage will be adjusted, as this is very light.] . (more information)

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Geneva: Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, 1979. [A collection of sample autographs reproduced in natural size of 240 deceased botanists. Entries arranged in alphabetical order include for each botanist a short biography, a reference to the best published bibliography, a list of institutions where collected botanical specimens are kept, and a selection of dated handwriting samples.] Thick 8vo, pp (c.500), a good copy in original pictorial cloth, Pat Brenan's copy (former Director of Royal Botanic Garden, Kew), presented by the author. VERY SCARCE. . (more information)

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Buenos Aires, 1975. Originally published in "Anales de la academia nacional de ciencias exactas fisicas y naturales" - centenary number - volume 27, illustrated with monochrome photos, slim 8vo, pp.(iii) paginated from 362-425, plain stapled wrappers slightly browned, title page a faintly foxed but otherwise internally clean. (Spanish text). . (more information)

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California: Stanford University Press, 1940. Illustrated with line drawings and monochrome photos, 8vo, pp. x, 731, darg green cloth with titles on spine, slightly worn, spine a little faded, top edge a little dusty, owner's signature on front free endpaper. . (more information)

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London: Archetype Publications, 2004. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp (2), 90, (16), pictorial boards, a very good copy. [One of the standard works on the subject.]. (more information)

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Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988. (Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium, Siena). Illustrated, pp xiv, 502, cloth slightly marked, else a good copy. . (more information)

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Caracas, 1960. 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp xiv, 1821, pale blue wrappers, spines slightly wrinkled, a good duplicate set from the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew with a small neat stamp on each front endpaper and on each half-title.. SCARCE - published by the author. . (more information)

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Wigtown, 2002. (1875). Facsimile reprint of the first edition, 30 text illustrations, small 8vo, pp x, 462, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies] . (more information)

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Washington: United States Department of Agriculture, 1931. 8vo, pp 40, (slightly browned), wrappers slightly worn, corners a little bumped, signature on upper cover.. (more information)

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Rio De Janeiro, 1998. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xviii, 316, stiff wrappers. (A collection of articles on science and life in the Brazilian Amazon.) . (more information)

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Beijing: Science Press, 1983. Well illustrated, large horizontal 8vo, pp (6), 320, boards, the upper corner very slightly bumped throughout, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE . (more information)

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London: Humphrey Milford. [Not dated, c. 1910 ?] Illustrated, 12mo, pp 79, pictorial cloth, slightly worn, half title slightly torn and with signature, small bookplate on back of frontispiece. . (more information)

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London: Seeley, 1910. "A popular account of recent notable discoveries." Illustrated, 8vo, pp 352, red cloth, a bright copy. . (more information)

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Bronx: New York Botanical Garden, 1981. Large 8vo, pp xii, 250, paperback, a bright copy.. (more information)

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London: Linnean Society, 1913. 5 double page plates, quarto, pp 67, unopened, paperback, original blue wrappers, slightly faded and worn. [Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. Bot. Vol VIII part 1] . (more information)

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University Botanic Garden Cambridge, 1975. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp xvi, 132, cloth has been permanently covered in plastic, (but not offensive, and all very clean internally), small number label at base of spine. . (more information)

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London: Longman, 1956. Illustrated, 8vo, pp xvi, 405, spine faded, cloth very slightly worn, but still a good sound copy. [Bookplate of M.J. D'Alton]. (more information)

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