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Kosciusko Alpine Flora [Kosciuszko)
by Costin, Alec; Gray, Max; Totterdell, Colin & Wimbush, Dane
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Slightly worn
- ISBN 10
- 0643024735
- ISBN 13
- 9780643024731
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO, 1979. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 408, the top edge foxed, otherwisw very clean internally, green cloth in good condition though with corners slightly bruised, a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper with slightly faded spiner. From the library of the botanist Alan leslie, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. [Around Australia's highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes and illustrates the area's 212 flowering plants and ferns, of which 21 are endemic. It discusses the geological and human history of the area, the life-forms and habitats of the plants, and explores the various plant communities and their environmental relationships.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020669
- Title
- Kosciusko Alpine Flora [Kosciuszko)
- Author
- Costin, Alec; Gray, Max; Totterdell, Colin & Wimbush, Dane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Slightly worn
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0643024735
- ISBN 13
- 9780643024731
- Publisher
- CSIRO
- Place of Publication
- Collingwood, Victoria
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- australia.australian.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Floras; Alpines;
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Mike Park Ltd
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About Mike Park Ltd
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