Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Libri antichi e moderni

Farrington, Edward I.

Ernest H. Wilson Plant Hunter, with a List of his Most Important Introductions and Where to Get Them

1931

62,98 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Parla con il Libraio

Metodi di Pagamento

Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione
1931
Luogo di stampa
Boston. The Stratford Company
Autore
Farrington, Edward I.
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Asia Plant Hunting
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; xxi, 197 pp, frontis (port), 33 illustrations mostly full-page, bibliog, chronology, index. original two-part green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, dj (chipped at spine ends, price clipped), slightly foxed at outer edge of text block, fine copy in good+ dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, who was a friend of Wilson, both professionally and socially, was able to write a biography of this famous plant hunter, the way few people can be able to. Wilson made seven plant hunting expeditions, to China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Formosa, where he collected hundreds of new plants and trees new to science, many of which are not available at nurseries and might otherwise have been lost. The book includes a list of plants Wilson collected with descriptions as well as a bibliography of his articles and books. This copy includes a loose leaf from the publisher to the literary editor of the NY Herald Tribune asking for a review of the book.