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A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus Volumes 1,2, 3, 4 & 6 (lacking a couple of parts) by Maiden, J.H

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A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus Volumes 1,2, 3, 4 & 6 (lacking a couple of parts) by Maiden, J.H

A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus Volumes 1,2, 3, 4 & 6 (lacking a couple of parts)

by Maiden, J.H

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Sydney: The Government of the State of New South Wales [1909 - 1922]. Volumes 1 and 2 in contemporary galf calf, rubbed but otherwise clean and sound, Volumes 3, 4 & 6 in original parts, paperbacks, slightly worn and browned, LACKING Vol 3 part2, Vol 4 part 4, and Volumes 5 and 7 in their entirety, with many plain litho plates throughout. [Duplicates from the National Museum Herbarium, Dublin, with their labels and stamps on the covers of the parts, withdrawn stamps on the title pages of the two bound volumes, and neat stamps on the verso of the plates throughout.] Very heavy - extra postage will be required.. First Edition. Good.
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The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants (2 Volumes) (Publisher series: Flora of South...
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The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants (2 Volumes) (Publisher series: Flora of South Africa.)

by Dyer, R. Allen

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Pretoria: Republic of South Africa. Department of Agricultural Technical Services [0-621-02854-1] 1975, 1976. (4to) 1040pp. Very good plus, no dust jackets. Bright green leatherette with gilt lettering. Maps, indices. Light puckering on the front cover of vol.1. Publisher series: Flora of South Africa. Vol. 1 Dicotyledons. Vol. 2 Gymnosperms and Monocotyledons. Locale: South Africa. (Natural History, Botany--South Africa).
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PFLANZEN-ATLAS zu Seb. Kneipp's "Wasser-Kur", enthaltend die Beschreibung und...
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Kempten,: Verlag der Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung, 1890.. [iv], [92], [vi] pp. Small 4to. Contemporary half chagrin, spine gilt lettered. With 61 plant portraits on 41 coloured plates. A fine atlas of medicinal plants in coloured colllotype, based on early color photograph of plants. A technique rarely applied. See Nissen, BBI, 1 252 ff. The text for the foreign platns was supplied by author's brother, Max, the director of the botanical garden at München. -- (Cancelled library stamp on title and preface; lower corner of title very slightly damaged).
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Botanical Features of North American Deserts
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Botanical Features of North American Deserts

by MacDougal, Daniel Trembly

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Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1908. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR William Phipps Blake at front end page - "Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N.C. with compliments of W.P. Blake (?) Oct. 28, 1908 (Leafs 45)". Phipps contribution starts at p. 45, titled "Geological Sketch of the Region of Tucson, Arizona". Phipps (1826-1910) was the Territorial Geologist of Arizona, a noted mining consultant and educator who started the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864. Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942) was a prominent North Carolina geologist, conservationist, and state and civic leader. Near Fine, bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine, 111 pages, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, 3 fold-out maps, scattered light toning and light rubbing to boards, Pratt's ownership signature front paste down. SCARCE in hardcover, a great geology ASSOCIATION COPY.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR. First Edition.… Read More
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The Family Garland
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The Family Garland: A Book for Families and Social Libraries, Highly Embellished with Steel and Flower Plates

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This book contains a collection of articles, poetry, and music for family entertainment. It is illustrated with twelve steel plate engravings and also with ten hand-colored portraits of flowers. The book has some foxing and water staining inside, but the color plates are clean and crisp. A new cloth spine has been added , and the covers show some wear. The color plates of flowers are quite beautiful.
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Beautiful Flowers and Fruits
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Beautiful Flowers and Fruits

by Pierre-Joseph Redoute

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First printing (alpha line contains "a").
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144 reproductions of the early 1800s classic emphasizes a scientifically exact depiction of the specimens.
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The Floral Register; containing figures and descriptions of nearly all tender and hardy plants,...
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The Floral Register; containing figures and descriptions of nearly all tender and hardy plants, which have been lately introduced to, and cultivated in Great Britain.

by Maund, Benjamin

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Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
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Principia Botanica, or, Beginnings of Botany (Vol. I a and I b complete).  Each volume inscribed...
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Principia Botanica, or, Beginnings of Botany (Vol. I a and I b complete). Each volume inscribed by Croizat.

by Leon Croizat

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Publisher's original printed blue wraps. Light wear to spines. Inscribed to half title pages of both volumes by author to "Dr. G. Tomayo/with friendly regards" dated 7/8/65. A nice, clean set without further markings. Please expect extra postage for overseas shipping as this set is unusually heavy.; Sketches; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xiii, 1149; 1150-1821 pages; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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A Year's Residence, in the United States of America.  Treating of the Face of the Country,...
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A Year's Residence, in the United States of America. Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil, the Products, the Mode of Cultivating the Land....etc. - In Three Parts.

by Cobbett, William

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London: J.M. Cobbett, 1822. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 360pp. Bound in modern leather, marbled boards, paper spine label. folding map. Text is tanned and clean, folding map has minor archival tape repair and is in very sound condition. Author's descriptions of the country, it's culture, its agriculture including a discussion of the farming of the Ruta Baga. He crtiicizes at length Morris Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois. Howes C- 525.
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A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America.
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A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America.

by Johnson, Laurence

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New York: William Wood & Co, 1884. xi, 292 pp. plus nine wonderful chromolithograph plates (including frontispiece). Original mustard yellow cloth binding stamped in black, gilt lettering at spine. Very Good Plus, prior owner name front end page, minor wear at spine ends. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Mendel's Principles of Heredity
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Mendel's Principles of Heredity

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Description:Description: A very early detailed exposition of Genetic Theory. Includes translations of Mendel's papers at the end of the book.I believe this is a first edition, first printing, 1909. See photo - verso of tittle page states "Printed by John Clay at the University Press" only.Text block solid, inside hinges intact, with minimal foxing and all colour plates/tissue protectors intact. Cracking of the cover cloth at front and back hinge. Back cover has bottom corner bent and cracked. Creasing on bottom right of front cover. See my photographs. A clean copy - no owners names, stamps etc. throughout. Minimal foxing. Bateson was one of the rediscoverers of Mendel's neglected publications in 1900. He became an advocate for Mendelism in Britian. Today, it is clear that there is no conflict between the ideas of Mendel and those of Darwin. However, Bateson was not a "Darwinian" in that he did not believe in gradual change over eons was the true story of evolution. He was convinced that, if… Read More
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Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. No. 14. In 8vo, pp. 13 + 2 pls. Disbound from Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34 (2)

by J H Maiden J.H. & E Betche, 1909

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Notes on the Botany of Pitcairn Island.

by MAIDEN,, J.H

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Melbourne, Government Printer, 1901.. Octavo, 10pp, extract from a government report, bound in boards, spine detached but kept with the book in a plastic bag, a very good copy.
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Wattles and Wattle-Barks: being hints on the conservation and cultivation of Wattles together...

Wattles and Wattle-Barks: being hints on the conservation and cultivation of Wattles together with particulars of their value

by Maiden, J.H

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Sydney: George Stephen Chapman, Acting Government Printer, 1891. viii, 79, 10 b/w plates. . PB. Vg. Technical Education Series No. 6. Second edition..
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Wattles and wattle-bark, being hints on the conservation and cultivation of wattles, together with particulars of their value. Second edition. [Dept. Publ. Instr. Tech. Educ. Ser., 6.]

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Sydney: G.S. Chapman, Government Printer, 1891. . 8vo, 24.4cm. Pp. viii,79, 10 pls. of Acacia species, tabs., notes, detailed index. Orig. printed wrappers, Very good. - Dealing with 44 species of Acacia with special regard to the exploitation of their bark which contains large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives.
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The Weeds Of New South Wales.

by Maiden, J.H

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Syd. William Applegate Gullick. 1920.. 1920. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 139pp. Part I. 1st Ed. colour & b/w illus. Or. green cloth. Very good,light wear to spine ends. .
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A Bibliography of Australian Economic Botany. Part I.

by MAIDEN, J.H

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Sydney: Government Printer, 1892. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney, Government Printer, 1892. Octavo, (viii), 61 pages. Card covers very slightly sunned, chipped and creased; bottom edge of first few leaves and top and bottom edges of front cover with a few very small tears (front cover repaired with tape); a very good copy. Technical Education Series, No. 10. In categories, such as Food (6 pages), Drugs (7 pages) and Timbers (7 pages).
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Sir Joseph Banks: The "Father of Australia"

Sir Joseph Banks: The "Father of Australia"

by Maiden, J.H

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Sydney: William Applegate Gullick. 1909. 1st ed., original cloth boards with pictorial decoration in gilt, b&w plates, some folding, including folding maps and facsimile letters, 2 large folding maps to rear, foxing to verso and endpapers, pp 244, spine bumped. Very good condition. Describes Banks's voyages (including voyages with Cook), and his botanical activities. 1st edition. Boards.
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The Weeds of New South Wales. Part I [all published]
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The Weeds of New South Wales. Part I [all published]

by MAIDEN, J.H

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Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. Large octavo, [iv], 141 pages with numerous illustrations plus 15 colour plates and an errata slip tipped in on the title page. Cloth lightly worn at the extremities; minimal ownership details on the front endpaper; a few marginalia in pencil; a very good copy (internally fine).
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SIR JOSEPH BANKS. The "Father of Australia

by BANKS: MAIDEN, J.H

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William Applegate Gullick, Sydney. 1909. 8vo, 244pp, with black and white illustrations, maps, facsimile letters, some fold-out. Two large fold-out maps to rear, each with a closed tear to lower right corner. A good hardback copy in bevilled blue cloth with general light wear and with gold-embossed illustration to front. Mildly tanned fore edges and endpapers. Presentation bookplate with pencil notation to inside front cover. Rear endpaper is heavily edgeworn.
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Sir Joseph Banks: The "Father of Australia"

by Maiden, J.H

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Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., 1909. Hardback in good minus condition. Includes several fold out maps.. Hardcover. Good.
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Flowers of Hawaii
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide

by Allan Seiden

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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California

Mushrooms of Northern California

by Biek, David

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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 .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)

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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.
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The Microscope
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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art

by Dr. Lardner

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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.
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms:  Both Native  and Introduced, Found...

A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region

by Jesup, Henry G

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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 .
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Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I

Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I

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Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, 1986. Usual library marks. 515 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones...

CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard

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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.
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HELVELLA MITZA [Elfin Saddle Mushroom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 556) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 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.
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten...
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten [provenance: Wilhelm Nahlop, head gardener of Schloss Britz]

by Stein, Berthold

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Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.
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Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

by Stewart, C. S.; Acamovic, T.; Pennycott, T. W

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9780851996141
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Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing, 2004. Illustrated laminated boards. Usual library marks. 586 pages. Presents refereed and edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants, held in Scotland in August 2001. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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