obyrne peter (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Green-blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; lavender spray on the lower edge of the text block; price intact. This anthology contains: I Dream of a Fish, I Dream of a Bird by Elizabeth A. Lynn; Firewatch by Connie Willis; The Storm King by Joan D. Vinge; A Tale of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr.; Exposures by Gregory Benford; For the Birds by Isaac Asimov; The Woman the Unicorn Loved by Gene Wolfe; Death in Vesunna by Eric Iverson and Elaine O'Byrne; Full Fathom Five My Father Lies by Rand B. Lee; The Moon and the Moth by Peter Payack; Trial Sample by Ted Reynolds; Elementary Decision by Don Anderson; The Regulars by Robert Silverberg; Memo by Frank Ward; and Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear which won the Nebula Award for best novella in 1979 and the Hugo Award for best novella in 1980. Size: 8vo. Book.

Condizione: As New. Like New condition. (flowers, orchids, singapore) A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Cloth. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Very well illustrated, large 8vo, pp vii, 247, a very good new copy. [This is the only book ever written about the orchids of Sulawesi. More than one century has passed since J.J. Smith published Die Orchideen von Ambon, and in that time books have been written about orchids in Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, New Guinea - in fact, all the major territories and islands except Sulawesi. This is quite an astonishing omission, because Sulawesi lies right at the heart of the region. It is the cross-roads of S.E. Asia, in a botanic and zoological sense. It is the place where the plants (and animals) from three totally different regions meet, mingle and interact. Sulawesi is unique, and so are many of its orchids. Bulbophyllum, with approximately 1900 - 2000 species, is the largest orchid genus in the world. Although it can be found in tropical America and Africa, the majority of the species occur in S.E. Asia, and it is only here that the genus shows the full range of its diversity. Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi is a scientific revision of the 123 species and 4 subspecies of Bulbophyllum that are found in Sulawesi. It contains descriptions of all 127 taxa, and illustrates the majority of them with colour photographs, line drawings, or both. The book is organised into sections according to the latest developments in orchid taxonomy; 24 Bulbophyllum sections are represented in Sulawesi. Keys to the sections and species are provided. There is a chapter on the biogeography of Sulawesi (which helps explain why the island is so unique) and chapters dealing with the island's forests and orchid habitats. Unlike many orchid books which are dependent on recycling old material, Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi is the product of original research and fieldwork. This is how 60 of the species in this book (an astonishingly high 47% of the total) came to be discovered during the course of this investigation.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Well illustarted, large 8vo, pp 128, paperback, a very good copy. [Contents include : In Memoriam: Peter Geoffrey Taylor . Two New Species of Gastrodia from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. Pholidota clemensii and P. sigmatochilus. Rediscovery and an Emended Description of Bromheadia humilis. A New Species of Dendrobium (Section Crumenata) from Kalimantan Barat. Dendrochilum rufum - An Enigmatic Species from Borneo. Notes on the Dendrobium bifarium / D. connatum / D. pahangense (Section Distichophyllae) Complex. Dendrobium (Section Distichophyllae) in Borneo - Some Provisional Thoughts. Sorting Out the Bornean Dendrobiums. Two New Species of Trichotosia from Borneo. Mount Tambuyukon - An Intriguing Mountain and its Orchids. A New Species of Cleisocentron from Mount Kinabalu. Diglyphosa latifolia - A New Record for Borneo by Anthony Lamb.].

Paperback. Condizione: New. Well illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 122, paperback, a very good new copy. [Includes "A Revision of Stikorchis in Peninsular malaysia"; "Two Rare Thrixspermum species Discovered"; "Papuasian Orchid Studies 5"; "Kipandiorchis - a new Orchid Genus from Borneo"; "The Borneo form of Calanthe masuca" etc].

Paperback. Condizione: New. Well illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 120, paperback, a very good new copy. [Includes "A New Malaysian Dilochia from Mount Kinabalu"; "Three New Species of Bulbophyllum from Indonesia"; "A Revision of Gastrodia in Peninsular Malaysia"; "New and Little-known Species of Thrixspermum from Malaysia and Sulawesi" etc.].

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 142, paperback, a very good new copy. [The infrageneric classification, morphological and diagnostic characters of Dipodium (Orchidaceae) section Leopardanthus are discussed. The section contains 32 taxa, comprising 26 species (1 incompletely known), 5 subspecies and 1 variety. An additional 4 potential taxa are treated as "unplaced" due to lack of confirmatory material. All these taxa are described and illustrated, and a key is provided. New species are Dipodium ambiguum, D. brassii, D. chanii, D. confusum, D. javanicum, D. lambii, D. meijeri, D. moultonii, D. puspitae, D. robertyongii, and D. wenzelii. New subspecies are Dipodium fevrellii subsp. deleonii, D. purpureum subsp. adesum, D. purpureum subsp. philippinense, and D. purpureum subsp. sulaense. One subspecies of Dipodium brevilabium is known only from photographs, and is not formally named.].

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. Well illustrated, large quaro, pp 116, paperback, a very good new copy. [Includes Notes on Borneo Orchids 5: New and Little-known Species. Flora of Peninsular Malaysia - A Revision of Dendrobium, Section Aporum, Bolbodium Group. Dendrobium nangajuense, a New Species from Nanga Julak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, Sarawak. Bulbophyllum veldkampii (section Lepidorhiza, Orchidaceae), a New Record for Indonesian New Guinea. Preptanthe ruthiae, a New and Threatened Orchid Species from the Pahang Limestone Hills, Peninsular Malaysia. Dendrobium section Diplocaulobium subsection Goniobulbon (Orchidaceae) 1: The Species with 4 or 5 Keels on the Epichile.].

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4'' x 7 1/2''. 247pp. with index.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very nice copy with dust jacket in brodart protective cover& excellent color photographs of orchids on every page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 584 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. The South Pacific island of New Guinea (the 2nd largest island on Earth) is the last great frontier for orchid species. Although it contains more types of wild orchid than any other place on Earth, it has been largely ignored by botanists and even today, little is known about the majority of the New Guinea species. Professional orchid collectors, repeatedly raiding New Guinea over the last hundred years, have concentrated on plundering a handful of highly profitable species; these are now quire well-known. With the recent opening up of the New Guinea highland areas, most interest has been directed at the bewildering profusion of orchids found there, concentrating on a few of the mroe colourful miniature species. Few people have bothered with the majority of New Guinea plants, and the New Guinea lowland plants have been particularly neglected. In this, the first major book on New Guinea orchids since 1928, author Peter O'Byrne deals with species found growing below 1000 metres altitude in Papua New Guinea, a country which comprises the eastern half of New Guinea and over 1400 other islands. Some 950-1000 orchid species have already been recorded from the PNG lowlands; 269 species (from 55 genera) are fully described int his book. Each species is illustrated with line drawings and over 130 of them are also illustrated in colour. This book is for the orchid enthusiast as well as the professional botanist. It follows a standard taxonomic layout, thus making identification of plants easier. In addition to a botanical description, each species has a general description (in which specialist terms have been kept to a minimum) and notes on cultivation. THere are also comments on distribution and ecology, and reference has been made to the majority of known species not included in this book. This book does not attempt to be a comprehensive survey of lowland PNG orchids. This book is a start, not an end.

hardcover. Condizione: New. NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.