Herklots geoffrey (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to, 194 pp, 14 colour plates, 270 black and white figures, cloth ( no dust wrapper was issued ) in a slip case. An excellent copy.

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 333, vi p.: ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Index. Subjects; Birds China Hong Kong. Birds. Hong Kong. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 333, vi p.: ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Index. Subjects; Birds China Hong Kong. Birds. Hong Kong. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 194 pages. some light blotchyness to cloth.

Hardback, first edition in near fine condition, in near fine slipcase. (Book ref 5037).

London, 1969. 287 pp. 16 col.plts & 13 figs. Cloth.

Cloth, in slip case. Zustand: V.g. 1st edition. Jacket sl. faded along spine, in almost unworn slip case. 194 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Folkestone, Dawson Science History Publications, 1976. Quarto; cloth; spine slightly sunned; an excellent copy with the slipcase a little rubbed, marked and partially split along one joint. Loosely inserted is the prospectus.

Super octavo, dark green vinyl boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 525 pp, illus (159 drawings), near fine (owner's name & date to fep in ink) in VG d/w (half cm tear to top right spine, 2 cm tear to bottom rear corner, bruisng & wear to spine extremities, foxing to flaps and internal d/w).

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original emerald green rexene cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9¾'' x 7''. Herklots is commemorated in the name of an orchid, Eria herklotsii Crib. Contains [xii] 525 printed pages of text with 159 monochrome illustrations throughout. Light foxing to the closed text block edges and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 004635008X BOTANY (Phytology).…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. The first edition of this brightly illustrated study of flowering climbing plants, in the publisher's original slip case. The work of Dr Geoffrey Herklots, a British botanist and ornithologist, principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, prior to the publication of this work.The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original slip case.Illustrated throughout, and with numerous full colour plates, the author's preface explains that this work is 'intended primarily as a guide to students who are studying the ecology of tropical plants'. Most of the plants discussed in this work occur wild on the belt between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper covered illustrated slip case. Externally, excellent. Minor rubbing and marks to tail of slip case back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Folkestone, Dawson, 1976. 194 pp. 270 figs & 16 col.plts. Hardcover. [72235].

Unknown Binding. Zustand: Very Good. **2nd Edition 1967** **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket, with small tears to edges.

First edition. For each fish, the bilingual text offers a physical description and information on seasons of availability, potential uses in the kitchen, and retail price. The authors close with 12 Chinese and 17 European recipes, including "fried fish with pork-cream", "bacon and fish rolls", and "eels in matelote". Geoffrey Herklots (1902-1986) was a reader in biology at Hong Kong University from 1928 to the Japanese occupation of 1941, when he was interned. Lin Shuyan (1903-1974) remained free and oversaw a program whereby vitamin A was extracted from fish liver oils to supplement the diet of internees. In the late 1930s, the authors also collaborated on a project to salt large quantities of dried fish to provide a stable food supply for the colony. Large octavo. Illustrations in text. Original tan boards, covers lettered in black in English and Chinese, black fish vignettes. A few faint marks to binding, spine slightly lifting in one place, general toning internally: very good indeed.…