Search Results: Authors starting with T from Acanthophyllum Books

National Geographic Society, 1984. 1st edition. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Owner's signature.

Victor Gollancz, 1985. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Scarcely used. No inscriptions.

anon., 1906. Short-lived journal. Bound in quarter leather, blue boards, hinge split at front. Good /No Jacket. Good, despite pp. 31-32 being detached. Rare local journal published apparently in North-east Lancashire and providing nature notes, descriptions of country walks and short accounts of 'disappearing landmarks' (historic buildings). Well illustrated with monochrome photographs; includes 'flower of the month'.

Scriptum Editions with the Natural History Museum, 2000. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Scarcely used. Jacket partly sunned.

Royal Society of the Protection of Birds, 1988. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ian Presst on a 'thank-you' label attached to the ffep.

Bradt Travel Guides, 2004. 4th edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.

John Wood, n.d.. 3rd edition. Paper . Fine/No Jacket. Little used.

Penguin Books, 1948. New translation. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Pages somewhat tanned, mainly at edges. Shelfmark label on spine.

Nashr-e Tarikh va Farhang-e Iran Zamin, n.d.. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. An overview of archtecture in the ancient world, by no means confined to Iran as presently configured.

Sampson Low, London, 1979. 1st edition. Hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

Encounter Books, 2009. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/V.g.. Cover a bit rubbed. A dystopian view of the Persian regime under President Ahmadinejad.

Pavilion, 2004. 1st edition. Plasticated cover, strip. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

Think Books, 2006. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used. Label on spine.

Quiller Press, London, 1989. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Little used. viii, 184 pp.

Methuen, 1962. Reprint of 1st edition of 1960. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Jacket intact. xi, 137 pp.

Nauka, Leningrad, 1981. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Fine/No Jacket. Summarises the rare and endangered species of vascular plants by taxonomic group and by geographical region; illustrated. Small dent to spine. 264 pp.

Columbia University Press, 1997. 1st edition. Hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Cover sl. rubbed, ink stamp on ffep.

Oliver & Boyd, 1969. 1st English edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g./V.g.. Armen Takhtajan was the director of the Dept. of Higher Plants at the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) and a distinguished palaeobotanist and plant systematist. This first English translation of the second edition of his popular "Poriskhozhdenie pokrytosemennykh rastenii" (The Origin of Angiospermous Plants), its dust jacket is "very sixties" in design. The translatoris a former researcher at Kew Gardens specialising in the Asteraceae. The core of the book is a hypothetical reconstruction of the first flowering plants, with supporting chapters on the Cretaceous Expansion and Insects and the Flowering Plants. The book also has a discussion of phytochoria (plant areas) and their development over geological time. Fig. 31 shows a dendrogram with the author's ideas of the "probable relationships of the order of flowering plants", which despite being superseded by recent discoveries based on… Read More

Springer, 2009. 2nd edition. Pictorial hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.

Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", Leningrad, 1970. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Typed notes by Van Steenis, containing corrections to Takhtajan's book, loosely inserted with some other papers.