Botany, Plants
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Earthly Paradises: Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology [Hardback]
Maureen Carroll (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
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ISBN: 9780714127682
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence of the existence of ancient gardens, the horticultural practices used to plant and maintain them, and the many forms and functions they assumed. Surveying t... .... Learn More -
Codex Witsenii: Annotated Watercolours of Landscapes, Flora and Fauna Observed on the Expedition to the Copper Mountains in the Country of the Namaqua Undertaken in 1685-6 by Simon Van Der Stel, Commander at the Cape of Good Hope Copied at the Cape [Hardback]
M. L. Wilson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780620281379
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Plants from the Past [Paperback]
Leonard W. Blake (Author);Hugh C. Cutter (Author)
Regular Price: $29.95
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780817310875
Published by : University of Alabama Press
Plants from the Past is a fascinating, comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as vigorous subdisciplines within American archaeology. H... .... Learn More -
Timber: The Dendrochronology of Roof Timbers at Lincoln Cathedral [Paperback]
R. R. Laxton (Author); C. D. Litton (Author); R. E. Howard (Author)
$67.50ISBN: 9781902916033
Published by : Maney - Heritage
Series: English Heritage Research Transactions
Volume: 7
This volume of the English Heritage Research Transactions is a ground-breaking study of the dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, of the roofs of Lincoln Cathedral. The authors compiled data from sampling of over 500 oak timbers ... .... Learn More -
Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia [Paperback]
Scott Redford (Author)
$117.50Out of stock
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Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece [Hardback]
John Raven (Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9780904920406
Published by : Mrs F. Raven
In 1976 John Raven presented four Grey Lectures at Cambridge University which sought to reappraise long-accepted identifications of ancient names for modern plants. These lectures, plus another given in 1971, form the main focus of this book a... .... Learn More -
Suffolk's Gardens and Parks: Designed Landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians [Paperback]
Tom Williamson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780953863006
Published by : Windgather Press
The parks and gardens of the 17th century through to the Victorian era were objects of status and pride as well as being functional areas of the tamed landscape which could be used for leisure and for growing food. Tom Williamson discusses gard... .... Learn More -
The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes, 1542 [Hardback]
Frederick G. Meyer (Author)
$300.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780804738033
Published by : Stanford Univ Press
This is a facsimilie reprint of the Latin edition of Leonhart Fuchs' masterpiece of Renaissance botany and medicine. Reproductions of 511 woodcuts, accompanied by commentary. 'A folio of breathtaking splendour' - .... Learn More -
Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa [Hardback]
Marijke Van der Veen (Author)
$155.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780306461095
Published by : Plenum Publishing
This edited volume brings together a wide range of inter-disciplinary papers, collating recent archaeobotanical evidence of the past 5-10 years. New evidence is presented, citing a number of case studies, methods of analysing and distinguishin... .... Learn More -
Pflanzennamen. Überlieferung - Forschungsprobleme - Studien [Paperback]
Peter Seidensticker (Author)
$60.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783515074865
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte (ZDL-B)
Volume: 102
Nach seinem Entwurf einer historischen Syntax der Pflanzennamen in ZDL-Beiheft 101 (s.u.) vereinigt der Autor in Neufassung fruehere, verstreute Arbeiten zur Geschichte und allgemeinen Linguistik einer Namengruppe, die bisher als solche von Philol... .... Learn More