Natural History & Resources
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Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants
$100.00 Add to cartAhmed Fayaz
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2011. -
Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest
$200.00 Add to cartWendy Cooper; William T. Cooper
Melbourne: Nokomis Editions, 2004. -
Atlas of Fungi
$30.00 Add to cartK. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -
Practical Mycology: Manual for Identification of Fungi
$80.00 Add to cartSigurd Funder
New York and Kingston-Upon-Thames: Hafner Publishing Company, 1968. -
Champignons et Plantes Medicinales (Therapeutique par les Plantes): Petit Guide a l’usage des familles
$40.00 Add to cartR. Riguet; G. D’Hommee
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1943.
Mushrooms and Medicinal Plants (Plant Therapy): A Short Guide for Families. -
Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
$100.00 Add to cartA. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics. -
Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them
$60.00 Add to cartNina Lane Faubion
Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1938.
Pocket mushroom hunting manual on edible varieties together with a chapter on poisonous amanitas. -
Traite Pratique des Champignons Comestibles
$500.00 Add to cartJ. Lavalle
Paris and Dijon: J.-B Bailliere and Lamarche et Drouelle, 1852.
Practical Treatise on Edible Mushrooms, including their organization, their botanical characteristics, their nutritional properties, their cultivation, the manner of preparing them, the means of distinguishing them from poisonous species and the care to be given to persons poisoned by the latter. -
British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and to Cook Them
$300.00 Add to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891.
With coloured figures of upwards of 40 species. This copy with 2 manuscript notes in the hand of mycologist John Ramsbottom and a 1919 postcard addressed to Edward King from an unidentifiable hand with mention of Paxillus involutus. -
A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
$1,000.00 Add to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.
Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,. -
Description de Deux Nouvelles Especes de Ptychogaster et nouvelle preuve de l’identite de ce genre avec les Polyporus
$80.00 Add to cartM. Boudier
Paris: J. Mersch, 1887.
Description of Two New Species of Ptychogaster and New Evidence for the Identity of This Genus with Polyporus. Extract from the Journal de Botanique 15 February, 1887. This copy inscribed by Boudier. -
The Mushroom Book: A Popular Guide to the Identification and Study of our Commoner Fungi, with Special Emphasis on the Edible Varieties
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Early Edition.
26.5cm x 19cm. xxvi, 167 pages, 49 plates (some colour), black and white illustrations in the text. Half red leather, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers.
With many illustrations in color and black and white photographed from nature by J. A. & H. C. Anderson. One of the first works on mushrooms to be photographically illustrated.
Rebound in half red leather. Front flyleaf loose, else minor general wear. Good Condition. -
Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi and Mycetozoa and their Literature
$100.00 Add to cartLucien Marcus Underwood
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. -
A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
$40.00 Add to cartThe New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976. -
Ungeniessbare Pilze
$200.00 Add to cartPaul Schneider
Dresden: Rudolph’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925.
Inedible Mushrooms: The most important and most common inedible and poisonous mushrooms as a warning for all mushroom hunters, presented in 48 color art prints with accompanying text. Scarce German mushroom guide book, 3 copies recorded in OCLC, none outside of Germany. -
A History of Shell Collecting
$120.00 Add to cartS. Peter Dance
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.
Revised edition of Shell Collecting: An Illustrated History (Faber, 1966). -
Shell Collecting: An Illustrated History
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 14cm. 344 pages, 3 colour plates, [32] pages of black and white plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Red cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
Very minor soiling and shelf wear. Jacket clipped. Near Fine Condition. -
Mangroves to Mountains: A Field Guide to the Native Plants of South-east Queensland
$40.00 Add to cartGlenn Leiper; Jan Glazebrook; Denis Cox; Kerry Rathie
[Logan Village]: Society for Growing Plants (Queensland Region Inc.) Logan River Branch, 2017. -
Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region
$80.00 Add to cartGerald F. Hill
Melbourne: Commonwealth of Australia, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1942.
Including Australia, New Guinea, and Islands South of the Equator between 140.E Longitude and 170.W Longitude. -
Bioluminescence in Focus: A Collection of Illuminating Essays
$50.00 Add to cartVictor Benno Meyer-Rochow
Trivandrum: Research Signpost, 2009. -
Drosophila: A Laboratory Manual
$50.00 Add to cartMichael Ashburner
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989. -
Drosophila melanogaster: Practical Uses in Cell and Molecular Biology
$50.00 Add to cartLawrence S. B. Goldstein; Eric A. Fyrberg
San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. -
Drosophila Protocols
$80.00 Add to cartWilliam Sullivan; Michael Ashburner; R. Scott Hawley
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000. -
Wildlife of Gondwana
$30.00 Add to cartPatricia Vickers-Rich; Thomas Hewitt Rich
Sydney: Reed, 1993.
This copy signed by Patricia Vickers-Rich and inscribed by one of the principal photographers, Francesco Coffa. -
Moa Sightings (3 Volumes)
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First Edition.
24.5cm x 17.5cm. 3 volumes, colour illustrations. Illustrated glossy papered boards, illustrated jackets.
Study of claimed sightings of the extinct New Zealand flightless bird. Complete in three volumes. Here, each volume signed by Spittle to the title page.
. Fine Condition. -
Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography
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First Edition.
27cm x 20cm. xvi, 392 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated glossy papered boards.
. Fine Condition. -
Forty Drawings of Fishes made by the Artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his Three Voyages to the Pacific, 1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80; Some Being Used by Authors in the Description of New Species
$300.00 Add to cartP. J. P. Whitehead
London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1968. -
Sertum Anglicum 1788: Facsimile with Critical Studies and a Translation
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Facsimile Edition.
31cm x 21cm. xcviii, [6], 36, [12] pages, 34 plates. Quarter vellum, marbled papered boards.
Minor foxing and soiling to edges and endpapers. Very minor rubbing to binding. Very Good Condition. -
Plants of the Americas
$800.00 Add to cartNikolaus von Jacquin; Christopher Mills
London: The Folio Society, 2016.
Deluxe oversize Folio Society facsimile of the Second Edition of Nikolaus von Jacquin’s Selectarum stripium Americanarum historia with a Commentary Volume by Christopher Mills and 3 prints. One of 750 numbered copies. This copy without the envelope containing 3 prints. -
Icones Selectae Fungorum (6 Volumes)
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First Edition.
28cm x 23cm. 6 volumes, 500 plates. Half leather, wooden boards, gilt lettering. Text is in French.
A joint Swiss-French work of 5 volumes of plates and 1 volume of text. The 500 plates mostly showing mushrooms from the Canton of Jura, in north-west Switzerland, bordering France. VOLBRACHT 1066.
The 5 plate volumes with discoloured spines. Occasional foxing. Very Good Condition.