Roy w briggs (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages lightly tanned and clean.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, small quarto, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout, xiii + 154pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xiv, 154pp, b/w illustrations Size: 26x20cms. Book.

Hardcover. 4to. pp 176. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. ISBN: 011250017X Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publishers green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed by the author on the title page. Including a list of plates, loosely inserted. ISBN: 011250017X Pages: xiii, 154 Fine in very good indeed dust jacket. Signedes. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. "Just two of Wilson's gruelling expeditions to China resulted in over 65,00 specimens. Although there are few gardens today that do not contain at least one of his plant introductions, this legendary botanist has largely escaped the attention of the biographer. Here, his great-nephew uses Wilson's original journals and photos and previously unpublished family correspondence to delve behind the glamour of his adventures to the personal challenges and hardships he experienced. Complementing the story of his life is a brief account of his living legacy - the plants and trees for which he gave so much and which proved him to be one of the greatest plant hunters of all." - dust jacket. xiv, 154 p. Footnotes, maps and index. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this fascinating life story.; The Great Plant Collectors; 4to.…

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 20cm), xiv, 154pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w, plus 8pp colour plates. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 011250017X.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 154; illustrated throughout, including 21 color illustrations at the back on plates; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930) "was a notable British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name" (Wikipedia). He later became keeper of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. He and his wife died in an automobile accident in 1930. "Here his great-nephew [Briggs] uses Wilson's original journals and photographs and previously unpublished family correspondence to delve behind the glamour of his adventures to the personal challenges and hardships he experienced. Complementing the story of his life is a brief account of his living legacy - the plants and trees for which he gave so much and which proved him to be one of the greatest plant hunters of all" (publisher's blurb).…