Proctor Michael and Peter Yeo (10 results)

1996. Botany. Timber Press, 479p., good paperback with lightly bumped corners and with previous owner's stamp on edge and half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Beautifully preserved copy, illustrated dust-jacket appears to have always been kept in protective clear wrapper and so undamaged and without fading. Green cloth binding with gilt titles on the spine.Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Reprint 1975. Colour and black and white plates throughout. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Colour, black and white plates & text illustrations throughout. (illustrator).

Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Yes this is the rare and sought after FIRST EDITION, first printing issued in full green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, slightly soiled on the spine, exlibrary with library stamping and pocket removal defects, no previous owner's names, overall a FAIR book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

FIRST EDITION, FINE HARDBACK IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER. (SOME FADING, AS USUAL). WITH 8 COLOUR PLATES AND OVER 250 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS AND TABLES. A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF POLLINATION. NEW NATURALIST SERIES NUMBER 83.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London, Collins, 1975 (reprint)/ 1973. Octavo, 418 pages with 134 illustrations plus 60 pages of plates (4 pages in colour). Cloth; bottom corner bumped (with slight associated creasing); a very good copy with the price-clipped slightly creased dustwrapper (with the integral clear 'Duraseal' cover as issued by the publisher). Number 54 in the New Naturalist Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Collins, 1973. Octavo, 418 pages with 134 illustrations plus 60 pages of plates (4 pages in colour). Cloth slightly sunned on the spine; an excellent copy with the slightly creased and marked dustwrapper (with the integral clear 'Duraseal' cover as issued by the publisher). Number 54 in the New Naturalist Library.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1973) 1975 reprint. 8vo (151 x 222mm). Pp418. B/w photograph plates and illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Fine in slightly rubbed, slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. "The role of insects in pollinating flowers is today a commonplace - so that it is easy to forget that its discovery is little older than the steam engine." And, of course, vitally important for our own continued existence. Chapters include: Historical introduction; The flower in the life of the plant; Insect-pollinated flowers - I; The insect visitors - I: Coleoptera,Diptera, Lepidoptera and some others, senses and behaviour of these insects; The insect visitors - II: Hymenoptera; Insect-pollinated flowers - II; The British wild orchids; Pollination by wind and water; Self-pollination and apomixis; Pollination in some exotic plants; Pollination in plant-breeding and commerce; The evolution and ecology of pollination. .…

Condition: Very Good. First U.S. edition hard back bound in publisher's original green buckram cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 8¾'' x 6¼''. Contains 418 pp with 19 colour, 181 monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper 134 line drawings. Very Good condition book with shallow rubs to the softened spine ends, in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with closed tears and shallow nicks to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. NEW NATURALIST (Series).…

Condition: Near Fine. First limpback edition in publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers. 8vo 8½'' x 6''. Contains 479 pp with 8 colour plates, over 250 monochrome photographic illustrations, 134 line drawings. Near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0002199068 NEW NATURALIST (Series). …