Species Graminum Stipaceorum. Gramina Agrostidea III - Callus Obconica (Stipacea), de Trinius, Carl Bernhard & Ruprecht, Franz Josef - 1842

Yokohama: The Yokohama Phytosociological Society, 1979. ( IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN) Main book is a compilation of articles (mostly in English) in honor of Prof. Tüxen. 495 pages. A hardcover book with rubbed boards and bumped corners. The supplementary book "Abhängiges Heft zur Vegetation und Landschaft Japans" contains the maps and tables. This is a semi hardcover (softcover) with some wear on corners. Both books are clean inside and solid. Good condition. (This overweight item weighing 2.1 kg will require additional postage that will vary according to the destination. You can contact the seller for a precise shipping quote.). Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Livre.

262+[1 ad] pages with plates and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. 4th edition.
This work is a native botanical of medicinal plants, used by indigenous peoples of Latin America, with illustrations, descriptions and various uses of the plant.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America,… Leer más

Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.

Compania Litografica Nacional. HARDCOVER. 1991. 9586380319 :Medellin, Colombia: Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideolgia. Spanish language edition. Photography by Jorge Mario Munera B. Good in like jacket. Glossy leaves a little wavy, probably resulting from exposure to high-humidity but no adhesions nor musty odor. Pictorial Boards. Jacket a bit wavy and dust scratched but o/w Good, 288pp. 9586380319 . Good. 1st.

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good +. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after coming to Philadelphia in the early 19th century. He spent much of the rest of his life studying the flora and fauna of the United States, publishing Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, heading the botanical gardens at Harvard University, and working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. This is one of several important papers of that were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound from a larger volume; final leaf largely detached from text block; minimal foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.

Yokohama: The Yokohama Phytosociological Society, 1979. ( IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN) Main book is a compilation of articles (mostly in English) in honor of Prof. Tüxen. 495 pages. A hardcover book with rubbed boards and bumped corners. The supplementary book "Abhängiges Heft zur Vegetation und Landschaft Japans" contains the maps and tables. This is a semi hardcover (softcover) with some wear on corners. Both books are clean inside and solid. Good condition. (This overweight item weighing 2.1 kg will require additional postage that will vary according to the destination. You can contact the seller for a precise shipping quote.). Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Livre.

262+[1 ad] pages with plates and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. 4th edition.
This work is a native botanical of medicinal plants, used by indigenous peoples of Latin America, with illustrations, descriptions and various uses of the plant.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America,… Leer más

Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.

Compania Litografica Nacional. HARDCOVER. 1991. 9586380319 :Medellin, Colombia: Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideolgia. Spanish language edition. Photography by Jorge Mario Munera B. Good in like jacket. Glossy leaves a little wavy, probably resulting from exposure to high-humidity but no adhesions nor musty odor. Pictorial Boards. Jacket a bit wavy and dust scratched but o/w Good, 288pp. 9586380319 . Good. 1st.

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good +. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after coming to Philadelphia in the early 19th century. He spent much of the rest of his life studying the flora and fauna of the United States, publishing Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, heading the botanical gardens at Harvard University, and working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. This is one of several important papers of that were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound from a larger volume; final leaf largely detached from text block; minimal foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.