Plant Galls (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 117) by Margaret Redfern ISBN 13: 9780002201438

London: Collins, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, xi + pp562 plus 2 pages adverts with charts, illustrations and colour photographs throughout. Hardcover with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ in near fine condition. Green buckram binding with gilt lettering to spine in near fine condition. Inside near fine. An excellent copy.

London: Collins, 2011. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A fine first edition copy. Pp. xi, 562. Colour plates and diagrams throughout. A new first edition copy. [Collecting the New Naturalists NN117A] title that is becoming increasingly hard to come by..

London: Collins, 2011. First edition, 2011. Hardback. xi, 562pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Most naturalists have come across oak apples, robin's pincushions, marble galls and witches' brooms, a few of the more familiar examples of the strange growths that are plant galls. They are beautiful, often bizarre and colourful, and amazingly diverse in structure and in the organisms that cause them. They have been known since ancient times and have attracted superstitions and folk customs. Both the ancient Greeks and Chinese used them in herbal medicine, and until well into the nineteenth century, they had a variety of commercial uses: important for dyeing cloth, tanning leather and for making ink. Margaret Redfern explores these fascinating complexities and provides much needed insight into the variety of galls of different types caused by a wide variety of organisms including fungi, insects and mites. She discusses the ecology of galls and focuses on communities of organisms within galls,… Read More

Collins, 2011. Book. As New. hardback. Limited Edition. hardback leather bound edition, 8vo, brown Nigerian Goatskin lettered gilt to spine, all edges gilt, ebony endpapers, a fine copy of this limited edition of just fifty copies, this being No 27, signed by the author on a tipped-in bookplate to front free endpaper, a fine dust wrapper also signed by the artist at the tail of front fold, housed in a brown cloth slipcase over board, col'd plates, 562pp, ISBN:9780002201438.