Flora of New South Wales : Volume 2 (Vol Two) by Gwen J. Harden (editor) - 1991

Kensington, NSW; New South Wales University Press; 1990.. First Edition; Thick Demy 4to; pp. xxviii, 601; illustrated endpapers, 30 pages of coloured photographic plates, numerous b/w. text drawings and illustrations, 2 page map, glossary of botanical terms, index to families, index to plant names, bound in original slick illustrated boards, dustjacket a little rubbed and worn, very good copy. Volume 1 describes 7 classes, 108 families, 470 genera and 1327 species, with keys to enable their identification. It covers the ferns and fern allies, cycads, conifers and the first section of the flowering plants including the dicotyledon families Brassicaceae, Casuarinaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Dilleniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Lauraceae, Malvaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranumculaceae, Rhamnaceae and Rosaceae.

New South Wales University Press, Australia, 2007. Hardcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Appears unread Reprint. Size: 4to Quarto (11 to 13 inches). Binding tight, spine fine. ISBN: 0868406090. ISBN/EAN: 9780868406091. **Heavy Book. A Postage surcharge may be requested. Contact us BEFORE ordering for a quote. Click Ask Bookseller a Question**. 9780868406091

Sydney: UNSW, 2002. VERY HEAVY. Volume 2 ONLY. xxvi, 690pp, index, glossary references, hundreds of bw & col ills, place marker ribbon. Pictorial glossy boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, 3mm tear at top of rear flap fold, light thumb soiling to bottom corner. This volume includes Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutaceae and Fabaceae which in turn include Eucalyptus, Acacia, Grevillea, Banksia and Proteaceae. This revision includes updated descriptions, accepted names and illustrations of 1765 species (col photos of over 250 species).. Revised Editio, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

New South Wales University Press, 1990. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, April 29 (sale item)* 4 vols., xxviii, 601 + xxi, 574 + xxii, 717 + xxii, 775 pp., hardcovers, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper of each volume, else very good in very good dust jackets. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

New South Wales University Press, Australia, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Signed by Author. Exceptionally heavy set. Forget it if overseas ! Volumes 2 to 4 are signed Size: 4to Quarto (11 to 13 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, covers & spine fully intact. Prior owner's name/stamp in ink, neat. Edges slightly browned / foxed. Moderate edgewear to boards. Signed by Author. **Heavy Book. A Postage surcharge may be requested. Contact us BEFORE ordering for a quote. Click Ask Bookseller a Question** ** Due to excessive postage cost - this book will NOT be shipped outside Australia** OZ customers should seek a quote via the Ask the Bookseller a Question link.

Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked

Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .

Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.

A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.

Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"

London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 104, edges and margins a bit browned, otherwise very sound, in a dustwrapper which is very slightly worn and browned and which has a crease on the spine. [Quite possibly from the home of a smoker, but no aroma. [Originally published at £19.95, but now becoming increasingly scarce].. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair.

Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More