Nature's Garden An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors
by Blanchan, Neltje
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/No DJ
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1908. 415pp. color frontispiece. Hundreds of color and black and white illustrations Green pictorial cloth, white lettering. illustrated endpapers. Some pages roughly cut, spine very rubbed, internally clean, unmarked copy. "n order to aid the amateur botanist, it used color to classify flowers, noting that this made it easier for novices to identify specimens, and that insects also used color to identify plants.[1] The book also explored the relationship between flowers and the insects that feed on their nectar, using rather anthropomorphic language, and discussed scientific questions of the time, such as Sprengel's theory that orchids produce no nectar.[1] Her description of the flowers also referred to relevant poetry and folklore.[". . Early edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/No DJ. Illus. by Henry Troth and A.R. Dugmore. 7 1/2" x 10".
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031114
- Title
- Nature's Garden An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors
- Author
- Blanchan, Neltje
- Illustrator
- Henry Troth and A.R. Dugmore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- Early edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Wild Flowers Illustrations Poetry Folklore Orchids Violets
- Size
- 7 1/2" x 10"
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The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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