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GUIDE TO THE FORESTS OF THE BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS
Written by T.C. Whitmore.
Stock no. 1827476
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1966. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Forest Record No. 2 of the Forestry Department, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. This book does not aspire to being a complete flora of the forests of the Solomon Islands but provides information that will be valuable to botanists and foresters. Care has been taken with the list and vocabulary of Kwara'ae names. Red cloth baords, gilt title to spine, vignette to front. A few b/w diagrams. Heavy knock to vertical edge of front board exposing board beneath the cloth and also a smaller knock to lower corner. Text block browned. Some foxspots present including a heavy spot to last few page margins. One or two minor margin annotations. Dustwrapper is browned to spine, chipped with loss at edges, heavy damp stain to front panel (worse is to verso).

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WOODLANDS (NN 100)
Written by Oliver Rackham.
Stock no. 1827269
Published by Collins. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The 100th volume in the New Naturalist series. How trees and woods behave, for example by how they copice and pollard, how they are affected by storms and fire, the function of tree roots, the life and growth of trees and how and why they decay. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour photos and b/w maps and sketches. Green endpapers with repeating NN logo. ISBN: 0007202431. Foxing to top edge of text block, foxspot to rear pastedown, else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby to rear panel.

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THE MEASUREMENT OF ROUNDWOOD: METHODOLOGIES AND CONVERSION RATIOS
Written by Matthew A. Fonseca.
Stock no. 1825188
Published by Cabi Publishing. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

This comprehensive volume provides hard-to-find information and instructions on the many methods by which roundwood and the products of roundwood are measured. Green glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 9780851990798. Board corners rubbed and worn. Boards lightly scuffed. Light foxing to endpapers, prelims and last couple of pages, else clean.

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NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS: FOOD, HEALTHCARE AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Written by Azamal Husen; Rakesh Kumar Bachheti; Archana Bachheti.
Stock no. 1825092
Published by Springer. 1st 2021. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book provides a wide spectrum of information on NTFPs, including important references. The main NTFPs comprise herbs, grasses, climbers, shrubs, and trees used for food, fodder, fuel, beverages, medicine, animals, birds and fish for food, fur and feathers, as well as their products like honey, lace, silk and paper. A very uyseful reference book for students and researchers in various disciplines of forestry, botany, medical botany, economic botany, ecology, agroforestry, and biology. Green cardwraps. ISBN: 9783030730796. Minor mark to text block. Corners lightly creased. Light scuffing to rear cover. Contents clean.

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FOREST PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN GHANA
Written by David Mateiyenu Nanang; Thompson K. Nunifu.
Stock no. 1324744
Published by Nova Science Publishers. Circa 2015. Fine condition.

This book is divided into five main parts: plantation forestry in context; forest growth dynamics and assessments; plantation silviculture and management; forest plantation economics and international climate change policy; and conclusions. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 9781634832052. Still in original shrinkwrap.

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CONNECTING TREES WITH PEOPLE
Written by Naomi Zurcher.
Stock no. 1324171
Published by Springer. 1st 2022. Slightly better than very good condition.

Synergistic Strategies for Growing the Urban Forest. Future City 16. Glazed boards. 200 pages. Colour photos. ISBN: 9783030945336. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Neat barcode label to rear cover. Contents fine.

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THE RURAL INDUSTRIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES IV
Written by Anna M. Jones.
Stock no. 1823389
Published by EP Publishing Limited. 1st thus 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A survey made on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Research Oxford. This volume covers Wales. Originally published in 1927 by Oxford University Press. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0715812564. Boards clean and bright. Endpapers lightly browned as is the text block. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

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WOODLANDS (NN 100)
Written by Oliver Rackham.
Stock no. 2135915
Published by Collins. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition.

The 100th volume in the New Naturalist series. Leather bound edition to mark the 100th volume of the New Naturalist Library. Limited to 100 copies. All edges gilt. ISBN: 0007202431. This is Copy No. 52, SIGNED by author on bookplate to front endpaper. Bookplate has small red smudge mark to one edge. Slip case is near fine.

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A JUBILEE IN THE HARDWOOD TRADE 1945-1995
Written by Dan Kemp.
Stock no. 1815420
Published by The Kemp House Press. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

To commemorate 50 years in the Timber trade, the company is Timbmet. Orange cloth boars, gilt titles. B/w photos. 304 pages including index. ISBN: 9780955584800.

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HOW A TREE GROWS
Written by William Somerville.
Stock no. 1815203
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1927. Almost very good condition.

An expansion on some notes of lectures given to Forestry Undergraduates in Oxford. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 112 b/w illustrations. 212 pages including index. Corners rubbed and bumped, spine rubbed, a few scuff marks to boards. Name in ink to front endpaper and messy crossing out to top corner of front endpaper. Some foxing throughout but especially to endpapers. Some hinges pulled but binding tight.

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ARBORICULTURISTS AND OTHERS IN NORTH GERMANY 1895
No author listed.
Stock no. 1812302
Published by McFarlane & Erskine. Circa 1895. Good condition.

Being a sketch by pen and pencil of their terrible sufferings at Sea, and their hair-breadth escapes by land. Large format. Red cloth boards with illustration to front and rear. No title to spine. B/w illustrations. 55 pages. All edges gilt. Boards mottled and damp stained. Top & tail of spine fraying. Endpapers browned. Small name in ink to front endpaper. A few grubby marks to contents mainly to margins.

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PRACTICAL FORESTRY FOR THE AGENT AND SURVEYOR
Written by Cyril Hart.
Stock no. 2120633
Published by The Estates Gazette Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition.

B/w photos. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Some light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. A few page margin marks.

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