Royal botanic garden kew (17 risultati)

126 pp., ill. with 100 striking b&w photos by the author. The photos are superb, having been taken with a 1930's camera before the severe storm destruction of 1987. The photos show amazing clarify and tonal range and took three years for the author-photographer to produce. fine copy in d.j.

Condizione: Good. Square paperback, circa 25x25cm, illustrated with (full page) colour photographs.

Paperback. Condizione: New. NEW. Paperback, pp (6), 184, a very good copy. [complete with CD-ROM which also includes the orchid checklists volumes 1 - 3.].

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Large octavo, pp 573, blue cloth, a very good copy. (Based on the successful Edinburgh Conference, this is "state of the art" taxonomy, with subjects covered such as intellectual property rights, DNA fingerprinting, genetic modification etc.).

Soft Cover. Condizione: New. NEW. pp vi, 83, limp cloth wrappers, a very good copy. [Lists the approximately 1,400 species names in Allium, half of which are synonyms, making it an essential reference for researchers, breeders, geneticists, nurseries, collectors and bulb enthusiasts who need to determine the accepted names of plants.].…

soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 25 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. In 2 vols. 'This volume contains the papers presented in the second part of the International Legume Conference, which took place at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 24 July to 4 August 1978' - Preface. Includes bibliographies and index. XVI, 667 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, light soiling to page edges.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp (4), ii, 235, paperback, very slight signs of use, but a good copy, with the bookplate of the Kew botanist David Field. . [ An excellent series of essays by H.B. Carter, Ray Desmond, Brent Elliott and others on Banks and the Royal Society, Banks' correspondence, the Swedish connection, Banks and the exploration of Iceland, the transformation of Kew, the planting of New South Wales, Banks and African exploration, Boston, Banks and Bonpland, the Chelsea Physic Garden, Banks' insect collection etc.].…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Illus. , several in color, charts, graphs, jacket now in a clear protector; 292 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. Pp. v, 83. Card covers.

13 S., 229 einseitig bedruckte Blätter. Neuer Leinenband. - Gutes Ex. 1.

Pictorial boards. Condizione: New. First Edition. 24 colour plates, many line drawings in text, thick 8vo, pp x, 653, laminated boards, a very good copy. [A detailed record of Mount Jaya in New Guinea - the tallest mountain in South-East Asia. Based on five expeditions to the area by Kew and its Indonesian collaborators, and incorporating records from previous expeditions, A Guide to the Subalpine and Alpine Flora of Mount Jaya is a comprehensive record of the high elevation flora of the tallest mountain in South-East Asia, and an indispensable resource for everyone with an interest in the ecological management of New Guinea and the Lorentz World Heritage Area in particular. Concise descriptions of all species of flowering plants, ferns and gymnosperms growing above 2,800 metres, with notes on their ecology, distribution and conservation status Line drawings illustrating an example of each genus More than 70 colour photographs of plants and their habitats A succinct introduction to the region's geology, climate and geomorphology ].…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. pp. xvi 960 , inscribed by the author to Sir George Taylor " With my best wishes, and thanks for creating the opportunity for me to tackle this work. H.M Birkill 12 Sept. 1985". Original dust very good with a little rubbing, now attractively presented in a removable clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, near fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, other than the noted inscription. A near fine copy with a very good dust jacket. [Sir George Taylor, born Edinburgh 1904, obtained a first class degree from Edinburgh University, went on to become the Keeper of Botany, British Museum; Director of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, general plant collector and botanist.] Size: 8vo. Inscribed By the Author. Book.…

Cloth. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Dicotyledon Families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae. Illustrated, thick 8vo, pp xiv, 609, dustwrapper, a very good copy. VERY HEAVY - EXTRA POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED. All volumes should be available - please enquire. [The principal objective of this project has been to provide an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. This Volume 5 completes the inventory with an enumeration of the dicotyledons in families in alphabetical order from Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae. The other four volumes cover, respectively, the ferns and fern allies, orchids, gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledons, and dicotyledons in families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae. The Kinabalu flora includes about 5,000 species of vascular plants, and is arguably one of the richest floras in the world on the basis of number of species on a per-unit-area basis. Additionally, Mount Kinabalu has been a centre of extremely active plant evolution and speciation and presents an outstanding natural laboratory for studying these processes. This last volume in the series contains sections on historical aspects of plant collecting on Mount Kinabalu, a biographical sketch of Hugh Low, the first person to climb and collect plants on the mountain, a sketch likewise of Elmer Drew Merrill, who described more new species in the floras of Mount Kinabalu and Southeast Asia than any other person. Volume 5 is dedicated to these two individuals. Also included are analyses of the collections, a discussion of ecological associations, consideration of dicotyledon life-forms, lists of cultivated and introduced dicotyledons, consideration of phytogeographical relationships, a review of classification of the dicotyledons, and an index to numbered collections. The main part of the book enumerates 66 families, 364 genera, and 1399 species, subspecies and varieties in dicotyledon families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae known in the Kinabalu flora. Information is provided for each species on literature, habit, habitat, elevation range, and specimens upon which the study is based. About 24,000 specimens representing this group of dicotyledons were examined. These were collected over a period of 150 years (18512000) by about 300 naturalists, explorers, botanists and local people, and are the basis for virtually all the accumulated knowledge of the Mount Kinabalu flora. The book has involved the collaboration of 15 noted specialists in various plant groups. The last comprehensive works on the Kinabalu flora were Otto Stapf's monumental 1894 account, On the Flora of Mount Kinabalu, in North Borneo and Lilian Gibbs's 1914 work, A Contribution to the Flora and Plant Formations of Mount Kinabalu and the Highlands of British North Borneo. Stapf's paper listed only 172 taxa in the families covered by this volume. Thus the present work includes an eight-fold increase in taxa since Stapf's time, and has the advantage of being based on more than a century of advances in knowledge of the flora and improvements in the scientific methodology for conducting such a study. The project has involved new and innovative procedures for carrrying out floristic inventories, and is serving as a model for similar projects in other parts of the world. Specimens have been examined in some 30 different herbaria, including all relevant specimens at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural History Museum, London, and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden Branch. Gibbs had about 360 collections available for the dicotyledons in this group in her account, and Stapf had only about 236. In contrast, the present study is based upon nearly 24,000 specimen records representing over 14,000 collections accumulated over the 150 years since Mount Kinabalu was first explored by Hugh Low in 1851.…

Paper covers. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Proceedings of the 3rd Flora Malesiana Symposium.

Paperback. Condizione: As New. 4 volumes. In 1879 the Marquis of Lothian commissioned Florence Woolward to paint portraits of his orchid specimens as they came into flower. These paintings, never before seen by the public, were recently rediscovered and are reproduced in their original full colour 15 plates per volume. Softbacks folio. Each of the 4 volumes is edited by one of the co authors listed aboveVery heavy and will require an additional contribution to carriage. not practical to send overseas.…

The Board of trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2011. First edition. Small 4to hardback, no DW issued. Original pictoiral laminated boards. Illustrated throughout in full colour photographs. Lightly bumped to corner and some creasing to head and tail of spine otherise a lovely clean copy.

Paperback. First Edition. Elephant folio, 11.75 x 16.5in. 274pp. 60 color plates. Publisher's wraps. NEAR FINE. Shows a small furrow to a corner of Vol. 2, otherwise the entire set is Fine/As New being completely free of all use and wear. As pictured.