Polunin, I. Plants and Flowers of Malaysia.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Times Editions. 1991 pp.159 with colour photographs throughout. 8vo. Light spotting to top-edge of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This book compares some of the rare and common plants of this incredibly rich flora. The main vegetation types, both natural and human influenced, are described in the first part of the book, and in the second 170 species are studied in detail with full colour photos and extended captions.
£5.00 [ref: 35911]
Polunin, I. Plants and Flowers of Malaysia.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Times Editions. 1992 pp.159 with colour photographs throughout. 8vo. Light spotting to top-edge of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This book compares some of the rare and common plants of this incredibly rich flora. The main vegetation types, both natural and human influenced, are described in the first part of the book, and in the second 170 species are studied in detail with full colour photos and extended captions.
£5.00 [ref: 46740]
Polunin, O. Flowers of Greece and the Balkans.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford. 1980 pp.xvi, 592 plus 64 pages. A total of 80 pages of colour illus. and 28 pages of line drawings. VG. plus in same dw.
£50.00 [ref: 40269]
Polunin, O. Flowers of Greece and the Balkans. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. OUP. 1980 pp.xv, 592 with a total of 80 pages of colour illus. and 28 pages of line drawings, endpaper maps. 8vo. Small mark to prelims o/w. a fine hardback in vg. plus. dw.
Almost 3000 species of flowering plants are named or described, and keyed.
£16.00 [ref: 41246]
Polunin, O. and Stainton, A. Flowers of the Himalaya. [with] Flowers of the Himalaya - A Supplement.
Rep. Pub. Oxford University Press. 1990 Two volume set with col. photos., & line drawings. 8vo. Nr. fine hardbacks in nr. fine dws.
This is the first book of its kind for identifying the wild flowers of the Himalaya. There are descriptions of types of climate, geology, soils and altitude effects. There is also an account of where to go plant-hunting in the Himalayas and at what seasons of the year.
£30.00 [ref: 71592]
Pooley, E. Mountain Flowers. A Field Guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho.
1st. Ed. Pub. Flora Publications Trust. 2003 pp.320 with over 1,300 colour photos, and dist. maps throughout. 8vo. Presentation copy from the author to Peter and Stella Hitchins. Fine hardback. Out-of-print in hardback.
Peter Michael Hitchins (1940-2019) was a well-known South African conservationist and founder of the Game Rangers Association of Africa.
£22.50 [ref: 61523]
Pooley, Elsa. Flowers, Grasses, Ferns and Fungi. Southern African Green Guide.
Pub. Southern. 1998 pp.64 with colour photographs. 8vo. A fine softback, with a few neat annotations in ink.
£15.00 [ref: 49296]
Printz, Henrik. The Vegetation of The Siberian-Mongolian Frontiers. (The Sayansk Region).
1st. Ed. Pub. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab. 1921 pp.458 with full-page b/w. plates. and photos. 4to. Minor bump to top-corner of boards. Overall a thor. vg. hdbk.
£170.00 [ref: 51969]
Proctor, G.R. Flora of the Cayman Islands.
2nd. Ed. Pub. RBG, Kew. 2012 pp.724 beautifully illustrated with over 400 colour photographs and 250 line drawings. 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to ffep. Fine hardback.
The three islands comprising the Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac) support 415 native taxa in a land area little over 260 square kilometers, 29 of which are uniquely Caymanian. This full colour Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor is a total revision of his first edition.
£22.50 [ref: 65858]