HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (18 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Fair. 1930. 3rd Edition. 563 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Sticker to front board.

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Hard Cover. Zustand: G+. First Thus. 12mo. original blue cloth gilt ruled in black, decorated endpapers (ex-library with RSMs, label, bookplate etc. to early leaves only, rubbed & a little frayed, some toning & offsetting, lower hinge starting; lacks folding maps, envelope conatining prev. owner's ephemera to lower pastedown); pp. xxxii, 574 + 2p. pubs. advts., with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, facsimile of Dhurma Rajah's seal, 13 full page illustrations, 72 text illustrations & 2 folding maps/panoramas. A good reading copy. [Neate H108: Hooker was the first to make an almost complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in the years 1848-50: a classic of early Himalayan travel and exploration].

Hard Cover. Zustand: F. Facsimile. 8vo. original burgundy leatherette gilt; pp. vi, 348; xii, 346 (last blank), with illustrations. A fine copy of an Indian facsimile in one volume. [Neate H108: Hooker was the first to make an almost complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in the years 1848-50: a classic of early Himalayan travel and exploration].

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Reprint. 12mo. original olive green cloth gilt ruled in black, decorated endpapers (extremities a little rubbed, slight bump to fore-edge, otherwise, clean and bright externally; outer leaves toned, top edge dustmarked, otherwise internally clean); pp. xxxii, 574 + 2p. pubs. advts., with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, facsimile of Dhurma Rajah's seal, 13 full page illustrations, 72 text illustrations & 2 folding maps/panoramas. A very good copy. [Neate H108: Hooker was the first to make an almost complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in the years 1848-50: a classic of early Himalayan travel and exploration].

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An illustrated edition of this collection of naturalist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's accounts of travels to the Himalayas, Nepal, and Bengal. A fascinating account of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's travels to the Himalayas, Bengal, the Sikkim, Nepal, and the Khasia Mountains. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a botanist, naturalist, and close friend of Charles Darwin, and for that reason this work has a focus on local flora, fauna, and other native plants. Hooker was one of the first naturalists to provide detailed written accounts of the plants of this region of the world.Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirteen additional plates, one of which is folding, and two folding maps to the rear.Collated and complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, a few marks to the boards, and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Spine has darkened. Internally, front hinge is strained, and folding plate opposite page 376 is detached but present. Light tidemarks to the extremities of the plates, otherwise pages are generally clean. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Some foxing. Narrow splits to gutters at hinges.; xxxi, [1], 574 pages + portrait frontispiece + 13 plates (1 folding) + 2 folding maps at rear + [2] pages advertisements. In-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and anchor illustration on spine, black lettering on front board. Floral pattern endpapers. Page dimensions: 177 x 118mm. With a 4 page Editor's Introduction by G. T. Bettany. "Having accompanied Sir James Ross on his voyage of discovery to the Antarctic regions, where botany was my chief pursuit, on my return I earnestly desired to add to my acquaintance with the natural history of the temperate zones, more knowledge of that of the tropics than I had hitherto had the opportunity of acquiring. My choice lay between India and the Andes, and I decided upon the former, being principally influenced by Dr. Falconer, who promised me every assistance that his position as Superintendent of the H. E. I. C. Botanic Garden at Calcutta, would enable him to give. He also drew my attention to the fact that we were ignorant even of the geography of the central and eastern parts of these mountains, while all to the north was involved in a mystery equally attractive to the traveller and the naturalist." - from the Preface, page xi. The maps are titled "Map of part of Bengal, the Himalaya & Tibet, to illustrate Dr. J. D. Hooker's Routes / Drawn by Augustus Petermann" and "Map of Sikkim and Eastern Nepal". Series: The Minerva Library of Famous Books.; 8vo.

Two volumes. 8vo. x, [2], 546; vi, 569 pp. Frontis. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover ornaments, gilt-stamped spine titles; recased, new endpapers. Fine. First edition, second printing (August, 1918). This two-volume is the first full-length biography of Hooker, written and edited by Leonard Huxley with the assistance of Hooker's widow, Lady Hyacinth Hooker. Hooker (1817-1911), British botanist, was arguably the most important botanical figure of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector, he was one of Charles Darwin's closest friends and eventually succeeding his father to became director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1865. Hooker was chief botanist (1839-1843) teaming with Dr. David Lyall, of the Antarctic voyage, on the discovery ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror (the consort to Erebus; the Terror was commanded by Crozier), under the command of Sir James Clark Ross, visiting Madeira and the Cape of South Africa. During the voyage he also served as assistant surgeon on the Erebus. In 1848-51 he journeyed at Nepal and India collecting many specimens preserved at Kew Gardens. See: W. B. Turrill, Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist, Explorer and Administrator (London, 1963).

Hardcover. small 8vo. pp. xxxi, [1], 574, [2]ads. with half-title. 2 folding maps, frontis. portrait, 14 plates (1 folding), & numerous text illus. original cloth (discolouration to upper spine). Hooker's account, first published in 1854, is considered a "minor classic of nineteenth-century travel literature." (Dict. of Scientific Biography) Hooker spent three years (1847-50) engaged in botanical exploration and topographical surveying in the eastern Himalayas (he was practically the first explorer of the region since Turner's embassy to Tibet in 1789), and another year travelling in eastern Bengal and the Khasi Mountains. Not only was the expedition full of adventure - in Sikkim Hooker was imprisoned for several weeks by the raja, but it also met with great success and brought back important results. Hooker's survey of hitherto unexplored regions was published by the Calcutta Trigonometrical Survey Office, and his botanical observations formed the basis of elaborate works on the rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya and on the flora of India. cfCasey Wood p. 390.

8vo and 12mo. Together 6 pp. on bifolia. With an autograph note attributed to William Jackson Hooker and an autograph letter monogrammed by the botanist Daniel Oliver. Scientific correspondence by the great botanist with mostly unnamed colleagues, concerning the exchange of specimens and their various designations. The earliest letter is addressed to the American botanist Michael Schuck Bebb, answering questions about willows: "The enclosed herewith contains the best that we can do for you in regard to the willows which Prof. Oliver has drawn up [.] We have no specimen named S. pyrifolia Anders [.]" (Kew, April 1877). - The keeper and librarian of the herbarium in Kew, Daniel Oliver (1830-1916), is also mentioned in the second letter to an unnamed recipient from 19 March 1884. Hooker announces that he has instructed Oliver to send specimens of "Exotic Grasses" to the correspondent and thanks him for contributions to his magnum opus, "Genera Plantarum": "It will give me great pleasure to contribute to your collection of Exotic Grasses, I have instructed Prof. Oliver accordingly. You have laid us under great obligations in the aid you have given us in respect of the Genera Plantarum. Your offer of specimens of [.] Transylvanian Grasses is most welcome [.] but I must beg you to wait till we have sent you some contributions from Kew." The correspondent had inquired about Hooker's famous collaborator George Bentham (1800-84), to which he responds: "You will have been gratified by hearing before this that my venerable coadjutor, Mr Bentham is alive & working hard at the Lilianae for 'Gen. Plant.' He has not been well of late, & I wish that his bodily health was as good as his altogether unimpaired faculties of sight, analysis, memory & judgement! These at 82 are quite wonderful & show no sign of change. A troublesome cough has weakened him a good deal [.]". Bentham, who late in his life had been "converted" to Darwinism by his young colleague Hooker and who co-authored the "Genera Plantarum", died in September that year. - In the final letter of the collection, an aged Hooker thanks his correspondent for two specimens of the genus Impatiens and criticizes the quality of some specimens from the collection of the Austrian hortologist Carl von Hügel: "The two species of Impatiens have arrived & I have examined & named them [.] I have examined & named, as far as I can, all the Asiatic species [.] which I have delayed returning until the plates of several species are completed for the forthcoming Part of 'Hooker's Icones Plantarum' in which they will appear. I have sorted the species according the countries which they inhabit. There are some undescribed species in Baron Hugel's collection but without habitats & the specimens being very poor I think it better not to name them [.]". Carl von Hügel (1795-1870) was a diplomat, botanist and explorer who wrote a famous account of his travels in Northern India, introduced many Australian plants to Europe and was the founder of the Imperial Horticultural Society in Vienna. - The undated note that can be attributed to William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), father of Joseph Dalton and first director at Kew from 1841 onwards, concerns the identification of an orchid: "I am unacquainted with this plant. It may be Rchb's Sobralia Bletia [.]. At all events it is not S. fragrans - which differs in size & the appendages of the column which in S. fragrans are short blunt and not fringed. I take for granted that the leaves are not hairy beneath as the drawing does not indicate them. If they are you had better look to S. Galeotti [.]". - David Oliver's letter from 12 July 1876 to an unnamed friend and colleague concerns the difficult identification of plants and includes two sketches. In closing, Oliver also mentions Joseph Dalton Hooker's intention to marry his second wife Lady Hyacinth Jardine, daughter of William Samuel Symonds: "Entre-nous [.] our good Chief J Hooker intends to marry Lady Jardine [.]". Ho.

1 page. Mourning border. 12mo. Zustand: VG. Old folds. 1 page. Mourning border. 12mo. British botanist and explorer.