Mors Walter (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. General shelfwear to the cover and page edges.

Octavo, khaki cloth, xiii, 166 pp. Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting) and two former-owner stamps; in a Good dust jacket with foxing and light edgewear. The unique book is the first concise and comprehensive review of the usefulness and potentialities of the Brazilian flora. Intended to fill an increasingly critical gap in botanical literature, it summarizes established knowledge, current research, and new problems pertinent to one of the largest available plant reservoirs awaiting the needs of modern scientific research. Chapters 5 (Trees with trunk exudates), 10 (Medicinal plants), and 14 (Cork-supplying plants), are especially characteristic of the book's success in presenting in condensed form large amounts of information either entirely new or vastly dispersed in the scientific literature. The inclusion of much precise chemical information, a relevant bibliography not often available to the North American community, and scrupulous attention paid to the scientific rather than popular designations for botanical species contribute to the thoroughness and importance of this book. Written for scientists as well as the interested layman, it should be useful to chemists, botanists, medical students, industrial and chemical enterprises, and many others who seek acquaintance with the "underdevelopment of one of nature's greatest treasures. Botany, Flora, Brazil, South America, Natural History, Medicinal Plants, Latin America zslic.…

Illus., 9.25 x 6", green cloth, 501pp with index, as new copy purchased from the publisher in same dustjacket. Co-authors: Carlos Toledo Rizzini, Nuno Alvares Pereira and Robert A. DeFilipps (ed.). Alternative Medicine. Multiple copies available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With previous owner's name, otherwise a VG hardcover first edition copy, tan cloth binding, no DJ. 166 pages with index.

tapa dura. Condition: Bien. plantas Holden Day. Londres. 1966. 20 cm. 165 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma ingles . Sobrecubierta deslucida. (=3537030=) VI172.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 8vo. 166 pp. foredges and endpapers light foxed and browned, internally light uniform browning, good plus in original cream cloth boards, very good in lightly edgeworn, foxed, good dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Gut. 166 S. Nutzpflanzen Brasilien Pflanzenkunde Botany Guter Zustand/ Good. Ex-Library. Additional cover foliation. ha1079345 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.