Cribb p w ed (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. pp.142 with b/w. figs and illus. 8vo. Previous owner's label to front paste down. Fine hardback. With author's typed and signed letter to the owner, loosely inserted. Considers field equipment, how, when and where to find beetles, identification, preserving, rearing and more.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. A scarce smart first edition copy of the edited journals of acclaimed nineteenth century naturalist Hugh Low, with coloured plates. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial hardback binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece, portrait of Low, and sixty-six coloured plates of Low's plant portraits. Collated, complete. The journals of the British colonial administrator and naturalist Hugh Low, who has many species of plants, orchids, insects, reptiles, mammals, and places named to commemorate his work as collector, naturalistandorchidologist. The writings cover his two years spent in Sarawak, during which he discovered a number of spectacular new orchids and other flowers. Edited and introduced by R.H.W. Reece, with notes on Low's plant portraits by P.J. Cribb. In the publisher's original hardback binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper is very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…