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Botanical Exploration:

Barrus, Clara (editor) . HEART OF BURROUGHS'S JOURNALS
Boston 1928 Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Octavo, 361pp., index, cloth. Owner bookplate. Good plus, top spine end lightly frayed, no DJ. (a15340)
$20.00 Killick, D. J. B. . AN ACCOUNT OF THE PLANT ECOLOGY OF THE TABLE MOUNTAIN AREA OF PIETERMARITZBURG, NATAL
Pretoria 1958 Union of South Africa Dept. of Agriculture. Botanical Survey Memoir No. 32. 8vo., 133pp., photo illus., foldout plates, wraps. VG. (a27220)
$45.00Kingdon Ward, Captain F.. FROM CHINA TO HKAMTI LONG
London 1924 first edition Edward Arnold. Important classic in botanical exploration. Hardcover. Octavo, 317pp. 1 page book ad at end, foldout map, 20 monochrome photo illustrations, general index and plant index, cloth. A few pages as yet uncut. VG, slight cover discoloration, faint foxing on fore-edges, tiny stain on edge of rear end paper, no DJ. Text clean, binding secure; no ownership marks. Lovely condition. (a42803)
$440.00 Hitchcock, A. S. . A BOTANICAL TRIP TO ECUADOR, PERU, BOLIVIA
Washington 1925. 8vo., 17pp., 15 plates, removed and rebound in later wraps. VG. (a54260)
$45.00 Macmillan, Hugh . HOLIDAYS ON HIGH LANDS; OR, RAMBLES AND INCIDENTS IN SEARCH OF ALPINE PLANTS
London 1869 1st Macmillan. Botanic travel in Norway.Octavo, 300pp., 52pp. (publisher catalogue), original blue cloth with gilt trim. Good, hinges just beginning to crack, light cover wear/ (a65719)
$64.00Moore, Spencer Le Marchant. THE BOTANICAL RESULTS OF A JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
London 1899. Article at pp. 171-261 in The Journal of The Linnean Society. Included in a complete issue of this journal with several additional articles. Octavo, original blue printed wraps. VG, slight chip on spine. (a72394)
$65.00 Millard, W. S.; R. A. Spence and N. B. Kinnear (editors) . THE JOURNAL OF THE BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME 22 (XXII)
Bombay 1914 Printed at the Times Press. 21 April 1913 through 10 July 1914 bound in one volume. Hardcover. Large octavo, 823p., 12 chromolithograph plates , 59 lithographed photograph plates, diagrams and maps, 54 woodcuts, cxxxiv, green cloth with gilt spine label. Many wonderful articles including: Common Indian Snakes, Palms of British India and Ceylon by Blatter, Termites from British India, A Fight Between a Jackal and an Imperial Eagel, Flying Squirrels, Teeth of Snails, Voracity of Vultures, Occurrence of the Emerald Dove, Butterflies (color plate), Effect of Castration on a Black Buck, Habits of the Painted Spur Fowl, Rare Snakes, etc. Modest bookplate of a Natural History Library inside front cover but no other ownership marks, no spine numbers, no stamps, no pocket. Nice association: tipped in is typed slip of paper reading "Presented by the father of Pilot Officer Patrick Claude Nangle RAAF, killed on active service Octobr 20th 1941." VG plus, slight wear to corners. Binding secure. (a87955)
$200.00 Koie, M and Rechinger, K H . SYMBOLAE AFGHANICAE V. ENUMERATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLANTS COLLECTED BY L. EDELBERG AND M. KOIE ON THE 3RD DANISH EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL ASIA
Copenhagen 1963 first edition. Det Kongeliske Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter Bind 13, Nr. 4. 4to., 267pp., 197 illustrations, wraps. Good plus, a few page tips curled. (a89332)
$60.00 Koie, M. and K.H. Rechinger . SYMBOLAE AFGHANICAE IV. ENUMERATIN AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLANTS COLLECTED BY L. EDELBERG AND M. KOIE ON THE 3rd DANISH EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL ASIA
Copenhagen 1958. first edition. Det Kongeliske Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Bilogiske Skrifter bind 10, Nr. 3. Original printed 4to., 194pp., illus. wraps. VG plus, no faults, no ownership marks. (a89348)
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