Ethnobotany Books

Cambridge: Cambridge Deighton, Bell & Co. Ltd., 1991. 8vo, pp (xx) 362, pictorial laminated boards, no dustwrapper, a very good copy. (This volume consists of the Proceedings of an International Consultation on 21 -27 March 1988 held at Chiang Mai, Thailand. Sections include: The Issue of Medicinal Plants; Science, Industry and Medicinal Plants; Techniques to Conserve Medicinal Plants; Policies to Conserve Medicinal Plants; and Experiences from Programmes to Conserve Medicinal Plants.) . (more information)

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. A few illustrations, large 8vo, pp (xxiv), 396, paperback, a very good copy.. (more information)

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University of Michigan: Ann Arbor. Two volumes, small quarto, pp 873; xii, 216, original blue wrappers, cloth spines, very slightly worn. [The scarce original printing of 1957 - 1961]. (more information)

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Alabama, USA: The University of Alabama Press, 2001. Illustrated with charts & tables, 8vo, pp (xviii), 177, paperback, a very good copy. [Traces develoment of the study of plant remains from archaeological sites over a period of 30 years, and gives access to previously unavailable data and interpretations. This features the much-sought-after extensive inventory "Plants from Archaeological Sites East of the Rockies," which serves as a reference to archaeological collections curated at the Illinois State Museum.] . (more information)

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Washington: Smithsonian, 2000. NEW. An abridged edition of the 1993 work. Well illustrated, quarto, pp xiv, 336, paperback, a very good copy. [Abridged this may be, but it is still an impressively detailed work, with information on 2,686 plants. A botanical history of a Mayan people from the Spanish conquest to the present day.]. (more information)

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Nairobi, 1989. Illustrated with line drawings, small 8vo, pp 242, green wrappers, very slightly rubbed, otherwise a good copy. A scarce local publication.. (more information)

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Michigan: Reference Publications Inc., 1979. Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 237, dustwrapper very slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. . (more information)

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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1978. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 414, a good copy in torn dustwrapper. . (more information)

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Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1988. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp (2), 286, paperback with dustwrapper, a good copy. [Palm conservation and utilization. Systematic botany in medicinal plant research. Medical ethnobotany of the tropical Peruvian Jivaro etc.] . (more information)

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Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2002. NEW. Well illustrated, large thick quarto, pp 599. a very good copy in dustwrapper. [ The standard work on the ethnobotany and plant uses of Nepal. Highly detailed, and with extensive indexes of plants according to use, ethnic communities and both common and scientific names.] . (more information)

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Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2004. Illustrated with 500 col photographs, large thick quarto, pp xvi, 759, an excellent new copy in dustwrapper. [A work of amazing detail, which includes an excellent key to the 825 species illustrated with line drawings] Very heavy - extra postage will apply.. (more information)

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Austin: University of Texas, 1983. Illustrated, 8vo, pp xvi,294, a good copy in very slightly worn dustwrapper. . (more information)

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