Category: Botany

Symposium on Magnesium. In: Soil Science, Volume 63, No. 1 (January 1947).

By: Bear, Firman E., ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1947.

Seller ID: m1478

Octavo, bound in cloth, 78 pp. Former-owner name-stamps; otherwise Near-Fine.
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ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM.

By: Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1993.

Seller ID: ess4206

Unbound, as issued. Plates 001 through 200, + [ii] Supplemental Plates. New, from author's private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru's orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru's rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illu...
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ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 201-400).

By: Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995.

Seller ID: ess4207

Unbound, as issued. Plates 201 through 400 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author's private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru's orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru's rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrat...
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ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 201-400). Two Volume Set.

By: Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995.

Seller ID: ess4209

Two Volume Set. Paperbound (stiff gold wrappers), Plates 201 through 301, Plates 302 through 400 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author's private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru's orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru's rich natural heritag...
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ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 401-600). Two Volume Set.

By: Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995.

Seller ID: ess4208

Two Volume Set. Paperbound (stiff gold wrappers), Plates 401 through 501, Plates 502 through 600 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author's private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru's orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru's rich natural heritage...
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John Clayton: Pioneer of American Botany.

By: Berkeley, Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, (1963).

Seller ID: qms435

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix + 236 pp. Very Good+, with neat former-owner stamp & signature, and former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light foxing. From jacket: As plant collector and early systematic botanist, John Clayton (1694-1773), Cerk of Court of Gloucester County, Virginia, occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica, published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton...
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Plant Disease, An International Journal of Applied Plant Pathology. Volume 85, Number 11. November 2001.

By: Biggs, Alan R.; Editor-in-Chief.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Paul, MN: The American Phytopathological Society, 2001.

Seller ID: es4154

Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. green wrappers), pp 1125-1212. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges.
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Plant Disease, An International Journal of Applied Plant Pathology. Volume 85, Number 12, December 2001.

By: Biggs, Alan R.; Editor-in-Chief.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Paul, MN: The American Phytopathological Society, 2001.

Seller ID: es4152

Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. green wrappers), pp 1213-1304. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges.
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Plant Disease, An International Journal of Applied Plant Pathology. Volume 86, Number 9, December 2002.

By: Biggs, Alan R.; Editor-in-Chief.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Paul, MN: The American Phytopathological Society, 2002.

Seller ID: es4153

Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. green wrappers), pp 925-1052. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges.
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Compendium of Rhododendron and Azalea Diseases.

By: Coyier, Duane L. and Martha K. Roane.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The American Phytopathological Society Press, (1988).

Seller ID: qms393

Quarto, paperbound (full-color photo illus. stapled wrappers), 65 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner embossed stamp. From Preface: This volume in the American Phytopathological Society's series of disease compendia is designed to aid in the diagnosis of rhododendron and azalea diseases. It was written for growers, students, researchers, educators, crop disease consultants, advisors in government regulatory agencies, agribusiness representatives, members of the pest control industry, county agricultural and cooperative extension agents, area crop sepcialists, and others concerned with rhodode...
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Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Volume Three. Edited by P. H. Davis, D.Sc., Reader in Taxonomic Botany, Assisted by Victoria A. Matthews, B.Sc., SRC Research Assistants, University of Edinburgh.

By: Davis, P. H.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: University Press, (1970).

Seller ID: ess4638

Volume Three. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 628 pp. Near-Fine, with slight foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly sunned spine and edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jakcet: The Flora covers Turkey and the adjacent east Aegean islands. The Turkish flora has hitherto only been covered by Boissier's Flora Orientalis (1867-1888), and since then a great deal of material and information has accumulated. The work is therefore the first Flora devoted to Turkey, and includes much basic taxonomic revision tha...
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Plant Pathology Circulars, Set I (1-200).

By: Division of Plant Industry.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1982.

Seller ID: qms418

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, illus. white wrappers), unpaginated. Title page detached (laid-in), a few ink marks to index; otherwise, a very attractive copy with minimal wear, clean & tight.
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The Strange and Beautiful World of Orchids. Translated by C. S. B. Salt. Edited by E. Launert and P. F. Hunt.

By: Ebel, Friedrich and Otfried Birnbaum.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, [1972].

Seller ID: m1459

1st American edition. Quarto, gray cloth, 207 pp. Color photos, illus. Former-owner stamps, and a newspaper review pasted to rear endpaper; otherwise Fine in dust jacket.
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Compendium of Rasberry and Blackberry Diseases and Insects.

By: Ellis, Michael A.; Converse, Richard H.; Williams, Roger N.; Williamson, Brian.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: St. Paul, Minnesota: The American Phytopathological Scoiety, APS Press, (1991).

Seller ID: qms512

Quarto, softbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), vi + 100 pp. Fine (As New). Numerous photo. illus. throught, in both black & white and full-color.
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Genetics of Flowering Plants.

By: Grant, Verne.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing.

Seller ID: ess4641

Octavo, lavender cloth (hardcover), xiv + 514 pp. Former-owner's published review pasted to rear endpaper; otherwise, Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) neat former-owner stamps; in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with light rubbing to edges. From dust jacket: This book summarizes our present knowledge and understanding of the genetics of higher plants. Therer has been no book treatment of basic plant genetics in recent times, and such a synthesis has been much needed. The focus in Genetics of Flowering Plants is on the nature and action of genes, gene systems,...
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Atlantic Wildflowers.

By: Griffin, Diane. [Barrett, Wayne and Anne MacKay, photographs.]

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Seller ID: m1663

1st edition. Octavo, green boards (hardbound), viii, 136 pp. Color photographs throughout. Former-owner signature; otherwise Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Towards a Checklist of the Flora of Bahia: A Progress Report on the Kew-CEPEC Expeditions to Bahia, Brazil in 1974 and 1977.

By: Harley, R. M. and Mayo, S. J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Richmond, Surrey, Eng.: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1980.

Seller ID: 27229

1st edition. Quarto, stiff illustrated wrappers, spiral bound, typewritten, 250 pp. Maps. Very Good.
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Gentes Herbarum. Vol. 10, Fasc. 1. April 1967. A Revisional Study of Argythamnia Subgenus Argythamnia (Euphorbiaceae). Chromosome Numbers in the Malvales I. The Genus Buddelia in North America. Addenda to Commentary on Mexican Aracae.

By: Ingram, John; Bates, David M.; Norman, Eliane M.; Bunting, George S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ithaca, NY: L. H. Bailey Hortorium of the New York State College of Agriculture, A Statutory College of the State University, at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1967.

Seller ID: es4151

Octavo, paperbound (stiff beige wrappers), 116 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner stamp and foxing (age darkened spotting).
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Standardized Plant names, Second Edition. A Revised and Enlarged Listing of Approved Scientific and Common Names of Plants and Plant Products in American Commerce or Use.

By: Kelsey, Harlan P. and William A. Dayton; Editors.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Company for American Joint Committee on Horticulture Nomenclature, 1942.

Seller ID: 06052scs

Octavo, burgundy cloth, xv, 673 pp. Former-owner stamps; otherwise, Fine.
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The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation. Foreword by Phillip Cribb. Photographs by Manuel Aubron.

By: la Croix, Isobyl.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Timber Press, Inc., (2008).

Seller ID: 9581gcs

Quarto, red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 524 pp. Numerous full-color photographs, glossy paper. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: The infinitely varied orchid family provides a never-ending source of unusual plants in a range of shapes, colors, fragrances, and sizes. As the demand for interesting and unusual species increases, so too does the need for a comprehensive reference on how to grow them. This encyclopedia, written by respected botanist Isobyl la Croix, offers detailed descriptions of 1500 cultivated species in 350 genera from Ac...
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Category: Botany