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Brown, H.P. AN ELEMENTARY MANUAL ON INDIAN WOOD TECHNOLOGY. |
£21.00 |
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121pp. 33 figures in the text. 16 plates. The author was Wood Technologist at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. Very good. 1925 Government of India, Calcutta. |
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Bryant, Raymond L. THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF FORESTRY IN BURMA 1824-1994. |
£16.00 |
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257pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1997 First edition, Hurst & Company. |
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Budden, John. JUNGLE JOHN. |
£10.00 |
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A Book of the Big Game Jungles. 304pp. Drawings. Fiction. Forest Officer's son learns the lore of the jungle. Very good. Crease to cloth of front board. 1929 Third impression, Longmans. |
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Eardley-Wilmot, S. FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. |
£50.00 |
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324pp. Index. 18 b/w photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. Account of his career in the Indian Forest Service from 1873. Boards poor, with cloth of one corner and one inch of the fore-edge worn through but not fraying. Internally very good. 1910 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Gorrie, R.Maclagan (edits) THE INDIAN FORESTER. |
£10.00 |
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Vol LX No 3. 88pp. Card covers. Example of a serious professional journal. Very good. 1934 Dehra Dun. |
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Lancaster, Roy. PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Paperback edition. Very good. Corners scuffed. 1983, Croom Helm. |
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Lancaster, Roy. PLANT HUNTING IN NEPAL. |
£10.00 |
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194pp. Index. 20 colour plates and 39 line drawings. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. Fine in slightly faded dw. 1981 First edition, Croom Helm. |
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Lancaster, Roy. TRAVELS IN CHINA. |
£72.00 |
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516pp. Index. 413 illustrations in colour, 253 in b/w. Endpaper maps. Includes short biographies of the early plant collectors. Signed by the author and inscribed by him 'For Colonel G.Gibbs a well known friend of trees with best wishes'. Postcard from Lancaster to Gibbs loosely inserted. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge. |
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Lancaster, Roy. A PLANTSMAN IN NEPAL. |
£31.00 |
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291pp. Index. Map. 266 colour photographs and 73 in b/w. A lovely new edition. Three months spent in 1971 gathering new and interesting plants for propagation. A long mountain circuit in Eastern Nepal. Interesting on the places and the plants. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First thus, Antique Collector's Club. |
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Lyte, Charles. FRANK KINGDON-WARD. |
£13.00 |
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The Last of the Great Plant Hunters. 218pp. Index. 26 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1989 First edition, John Murray. |
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Martin, Monica. OUT IN THE MIDDAY SUN. |
£5.00 |
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242pp. Jungle life in Bihar. Her husband was estate manager for a mica mine and then forest officer in former-princely estates at Bettiah in the North Bihar terrai. Very good internally. Some loss to head and tail of spine cloth. 1949 First US, Little, Brown, Boston. |
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Parker, R.N. A FOREST FLORA FOR THE PUNJAB WITH HAZARA AND DELHI. |
£40.00 |
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591pp. Index. No illustrations. Compiled for the use of Forest Officers. Very good. Front hinge slack but holding. 1924 Government Press, Punjab. |
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Poffenberger, Mark and McGean, Betsy (edit). VILLAGE VOICES, FOREST CHOICES. |
£5.00 |
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Joint Forest Management in India. 356pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1998 Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Rowntree, John. A CHOTA SAHIB. |
£10.00 |
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Memoirs of a Forest Officer. 110pp. 18 b/w photographs. The author was in Assam from 1929-47. Card covers. Very good. A little rubbed. Owner's mame. 1981 Tabb House, Padstow. |
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Singh, Chetan. NATURAL PREMISES. |
£26.00 |
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Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalayas 1800-1950. 252pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£10.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good in very good dustwrapper but a little ink annotation on a few pages by an owner who has lived in Naini Tal. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£10.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good. Spine lettering faded. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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Smythies, Olive. TEN THOUSAND MILES ON ELEPHANTS. |
£24.00 |
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220pp. Index. 21 b/w illustrations. Life in Naini Tal, Nepal and Burma with Forest Service husband. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper. 1961 First edition, Seeley Service. |
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St Joseph, J.D. LIFE IN THE WILDS OF CENTRAL INDIA. |
£16.00 |
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428pp. Sketch maps and 46 b/w photographs. The author's career in the Forest Department from 1891-1914. Edited from his papers with excellent detail on forest conservation, wild-life and the tribal peoples of Central India. Very close observation of tigers. Sadly, for such a lavishly produced book, no index. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. |
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Stebbing, E.P. JUNGLE BY-WAYS IN INDIA. |
£67.00 |
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Leaves from the Note-book of a Sportsman and a Naturalist. 307pp. Index. Drawings by the author. In original decorated boards. Close jungle observation from a Forest Officer. Neat inscription to Kurseong recipient. Very good indeed. Boards very clean and bright but a little spotting. 1911 First edition, John Lane. |
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