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Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Poor. First Edition. Contains 'The Vortex Blaster Makes War' by Smith; 'Thunder in the Void' by Kuttner; 'Doomsday on Ajiat' by Jones; 'Remember Me, Kama!' by Kubilius; 'Nothing' by Pearson (Wollheim); The Eternal Quest' by Gilbert and 'Miracle' by Cummings. The front cover is detached with two one inch pieces missing from the top right corner and tearing at the bottom right corner - there are a few small pieces of tape to the reverse. Two inch piece missing from the bottom left corner of the back cover. Chipping and edge wear to the spine and some chipping around the edges and browning to the back cover. Pages browned with a little chipping and edge tearing to the first few pages but otherwise generally unmarked. Cover illustration by Leo Morey. Interior illustrations by Giunta, Morey, Leydonfrost, Lawrence and Musacchia. Giunta, John; Morey, Leo; Musacchia, J.B.; Leydenfrost, A.; Lawrence (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Overall fairly crisp, clean and bright; just some light marks to the boards and a little light creasing and a few light marks to the prelims. DJ is a little bumped. Previous owner has left some things loosely inserted, including notes and a map of the High Tatra mountains in Slovakia. John Ray is the outstanding British natural historian of the 17th century. This 624-page book far surpasses Ewen & Prime's (1975) Ray's Flora of Cambridgeshire By providing the first complete translation from the Latin of his first publication, A catalogue of plants growing around Cambridge (1660).This is famous as the first British County Flora, but it is a much more complex work than its title suggests. It includes not only a botanical catalogue, but also "for the benefit of beginners" indexes of English names and of places (with lists of the rarer species of 12 areas in the county) and hitherto untranslated chapters on the meanings of plant names and of botanical terms. Ray's abilities as an all-round naturalist are apparent from the numerous digressions in the text, which include pioneer observations on insect parasitoids and the hermaphrodite mating of slugs and snails and a suggestion that gardeners may control plant pests by fostering "a great army of frogs". The rare appendices to the Catalogue, published in 1663 and 1685, are also translated here for the first time.…

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st edition; no. 173. A scholarly new translation and interpretation of John Ray's classic "Flora Cantabrigiensis", the first of his publications and indeed the first 'local flora' of an English county. ix, 612 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English, Latin, Greek.…