Bernal roderigo (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-viii, 352 pp, 64 colour plates each with 4 photographic illustrations, distribution maps, a near fine copy in a similar dust wrapper.

Paperback. Condizione: As New. Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 352, paperback, a neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy indeed, virtually as new. [This user-friendly and authoritative book will serve scientists, growers, and sightseers as a guide to the 67 genera and 550 species of naturally occurring palms found in the Americas. Its purpose is to give an introduction to the diversity of palms and allow almost anyone to identify a palm from this part of the world. Providing scientifically accurate descriptions and a rich supply of illustrations, including color photos taken in the wild of over 256 species, this guide is extraordinary in its coverage of the plant that has become for many people the symbol of the tropical landscape. Palms are not only aesthetically pleasing, but they also make up an economically and ecologically important family of plants. In industry, for example, the coconut, oil palm, and date palm have a wide and varied use. In the lowland rain forest, palms are usually one of the most abundant and diverse families of plants. Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas will appeal to professional scientists or students working in the tropics-including agronomists, anthropologists, ecologists, entomologists, natural historians, and zoologists-as well as to amateur and professional growers of palms, to "eco-tourists" who visit tropical regions, and to inhabitants of these regions who are interested in the native flora.].…

Paperback. Condizione: nrFine. Third Printing. Glossy pictorial covers. Slight marks to text edges in one or two places, otherwise Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.