Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: traveller and plant collector
by Desmond, Ray
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1851493050
- ISBN 13
- 9781851493050
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Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Antique Collectors' Club & R.B.G. Kew, 1999. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Sir Joseph Hooker is well known as Director of Kew Gardens, but his explorations of the Himalayas and the Southern Hemisphere are equally distinguished aspects of his career. A close friend of Charles Darwin, he too derived scientific insights and inspiration from his visits to the exotic island floras of New Zealand, Australia and the Falklands, as well as encountering the very distinctive Cape Flora of South Africa. The exquisitely Colonial tableau of an Indian collector presenting (who looks a bit like Edward Lear) with a Rhododendron - described with superb tact by Ray Desmond as a 'whimsical composition - is shown on the rear end papers; the front shows a route map of his travels on the ships 'Erebus' and 'Terror'. 286, (1) pp.
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- Bookseller
- Acanthophyllum Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34102
- Title
- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: traveller and plant collector
- Author
- Desmond, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hard covers, dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1851493050
- ISBN 13
- 9781851493050
- Publisher
- Antique Collectors' Club & R.B.G. Kew
- Place of Publication
- Woodbridge
- Date Published
- 1999
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