Flora of Australia, Volume 57 : Lichens 5 by Patrick M. McCarthy (editor) - 2009

Center for Security Policy, 2010-09-22. paperback. Acceptable. 6x0x9.

Center for Security Policy, 2010-09-22. paperback. Good. 6x0x9.

Center for Security Policy, 2010-09-22. Paperback. Good.

Wiley-Blackwell, 2007-01-16. Hardcover. Good.

UsedGood. Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. STOCK PHOTOS MAY VARY FROM THE ACTUAL ITEM. ACTUAL PHOTOS AVAIL. UPON REQUEST.

First edition, first printing of this collection of 9 pieces of writing including novelettes and short stories. Featured are: The Amber Frog by Stephanie A Smith (novelette), Report Upon the Descent of Commander Lentz by Paul Cook (novelette), The Storming of Annie Kinsale by Lucius Shepard (novelette), The Oncology of Hope by Thomas Wylde (novelette), The Stripe on Barberpolia by Martin Gardner (short story), Translations from the Colosian by Jack McDevitt (short story), A Voice Not Heard by Charles L Grant (short story), Heat of Fusion by John M Ford (short story) and Crow by James Patrick Kelly (short story). In Fine Condition.

Center for Security Policy, 2010. Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Center for Security Policy, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. October 2010 edition, stated. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 352 pp. White glossy stiff wraps.

New York: Davis Publications, 1983. Book. Illus. by Val Lakey Lindahn; Gerry Mooney; Bob Walters; Denise Cirjak; Judy Mitchell; Broeck Steadman; Artifact;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 176 pp. Digest format. Volume 7, number 8. Light wear at the corners with creasing on the spine. Cover art by Val Lakey Lindahn; interiors by: Gerry Mooney; Bob Walters; Denise Cirjak; Judy Mitchell; Broeck Steadman; and Artifact. This issue contains: The Catch, a novelette by Craig W. Anderson; The Jock Who Wanted to Be Fifty by Martin Gardner; The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois; Still Time by James Patrick Kelly; Memory by Michael P. Kube-McDowell; Scenes from the Country of the Blind by John Sladek; Susie Q by Terence M. Green; The Orchard by Steve Rasnic Tem; Sleepwalker by Art Vesity; and A Stroll to the Stars, an essay by Augustine Funnell; along with Isaac Asimov's editorial, Shrugging It Off, and all the usual features. The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois won the Nebula Award for best short… Read More

New York: Davis Publications Inc. Good. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Digest sized pictorial wrappers, [178] pages [last numbered page is 176], illustrated. Good only copy [spine cocked and creased, cover creasing, text paper tanned, 3/4" tear to the lower right corner of the rear cover. bx127

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