CONIFER BOOKS
New Releases 2005 - 06

Conifer Obsession Groups

Dr. Aljos Farjon's three new major books on conifers have been completed and have just been published:


1. A Monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys

author: Aljos Farjon

with a chapter on the fossil record by Ruth Stockey & al. and contribution from Sol Ortiz Garcia
to the chapter on the early development of seed cones in the family Cupressaceae s.l.

Casebound in cloth, with illustrated jacket, frontispiece, 648 pp,size 320 x 220 mm, richly illlustrated
with full-page line drawings of all species by the author.

Price £125 plus postage (£4.75 UK, £8.00 Europe, £12.50 other)

Published by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in July 2005 and obtainable from
www.kewbooks.com

Information on the most widespread family of the conifers.


2. A Bibliography of Conifers, second edition

author: Aljos Farjon

This is a greatly enlarged (from 2130 to 3787 entries) reference to all the scientific literature on conifers,
compiled from the first edition which was published in 1990.
It has been reorganized for easier access to the vast literature on conifers and one can now
find literature about every species of conifer in it.

Casebound in cloth, with illustrated jacket, frontispiece, 218 pp, 320 x 220 mm.

Price: £ 75.00 plus postage (4.75 UK, £8.00 Europe, £12.50 other)

Published by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in
July 2005 and obtainable from www.kewbooks.com

This is for the serious conifer student or researcher. It is, as was the first edition,
a companion volume to the first book (the first edition to the book Pinaceae, also published in 1990)
and gives all the literature from ca. 1750 to the end of 2004.


3. Pines. Drawing and descriptions of the genus Pinus

author: Aljos Farjon

Hardbound laminated in colour, 236 pp, 320 x 220 mm, richly illustrated with full-page line drawings
of all species by the author.

Price: EURO 88 / £60.00 / US$ 126 excl. postage & shipping (costs not stated)

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands
in June 2005 (distributed from the UK) and obtainable from www.brill.nl

This is a second edition, much expanded and corrected / updated, of the first book on conifers published in 1984.
It now has full treatments of all the species of pine (Pinus L.) that are recognized in the second edition
of The World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers (2001, not to be confused with the Bibliography of Conifers above).