New Mediterranean World Publications

Research on plants from the Mediterranean world and beyond, their uses, diseases and their history, medicine and medical systems and also medical and botanical illustrated books is on the rise.

Here is a selection of recent and perhaps somewhat rare publications:

• M.A. Zahran and A. J. Willis, The Vegetation of Egypt, 2nd edition (Plant and Vegetation 2). Heidelberg (Germany): Springer Verlag, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8755-4.
• S. Sheterauki and M. Jacoby, Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia, 2009. Distributed by NHBS Environmental Bookstore, Devon (UK); and Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein (Germany). ISBN: 978-99940-984-1-5.
• First Kazbegi Workshop on “Botany, Taxonomy and Phytochemistry of wild Allium L. species of the Caucasus and Central Asia". June 4-8, 2007, Kasgebi, Caucasus, Georgia. Marburg and Gatersleben (Germany): Institut Pharmazeutische Chemie, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-9813096-0-7.
• P. E. McGovern, Uncorking the past. The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-520-25379-7.
• J. L. A. Webb, Humanity’s Burden. A Global History of Malaria (Studies in Environment and History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-521-85418-4.
• A. K. C. Leung, Leprosy in China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University). New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-231-12300-6.
• G. B. Ferngren, Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8018-9142-7.
• A. Strid and B. Strid (eds.), Sibthorp and Smith, Flora Graeca. Volumes 1-2, 1806-1816. Annotated Re-issue. Ruggell (Liechtenstein): A. R. G. Gantner Verlag K. G., 2009. ISBN: 978-3-906166-70-4 (distributed by Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein [Germany]).