N.S.W Rainforest Trees Parts 2–10

Botany Australian Flora Natural History Field Guides Rainforest Ecology Forestry Environmental Reference Regional Studies (NSW)

A.G. Floyd’s N.S.W. Rainforest Trees Parts 2–10 is the definitive field-reference for anyone who wants to identify and understand the living giants of Australia’s east-coast rainforests without lugging a 3 kg textbook through the bush. Issued between 1978 and 1989 by the Forestry Research Commission of New South Wales, these nine slim paperbacks were printed in small government runs and have never been re-issued, so a complete set in clean, readable condition is already scarce; finding one that still carries the original owner’s neat name on each cover—and the faint aroma of eucalyptus rather than smoke—makes this listing unusually collectible.

Inside, every species gets the full Floyd treatment: a sharply observed botanical line drawing, a distribution map keyed to NSW grid squares, concise diagnostic notes, and the local timber uses that only a working forester would know. Because the booklets were written for field staff, the language is plain enough for senior-school students yet rigorous enough for professional ecologists, making the set equally at home in a backpack, a classroom, or a native-plant nursery. Gardeners trying to decide which local rainforest specimen will thrive in a shaded Sydney courtyard, or bushwalkers puzzling over a buttressed giant in Dorrigo, can flip straight to the relevant part and have an answer in under a minute.

Collectors prize the set for three reasons: the artwork is by Floyd himself and has never been reproduced elsewhere; the regional focus means every tree described is actually reachable on weekend trips from Newcastle to the Victorian border; and the ephemeral nature of government print runs means most copies were heavily used in the field and later discarded. A smoke-free, intact set with only light foxing on the inner covers and a single creased page is therefore the next-best thing to mint, and far rarer than the single hard-bound volume that libraries usually hold.

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