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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].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Grand Colosseum First edition without jacket on red cloth title page and frontispiece plate loose otherwise in tact volume with tear to top of spibe cover will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

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].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. PETERMANN. HOOKER (illustrator). 2nd Edition. The Minerva Library edition. In attractive modern half orange calf over green calf boards, gilt tooling. Spine, gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to green calf labels. Internally, half title tipped in, portrait frontis, [5], (vi-xxxi), [1], [1], 2-574 pp, 13 full page B&W illustrations, 71 illustrations within text, 2 large folding maps to rear pocket, green marbled endpapers, [2] tipped in adverts, original cloth label tipped to ep, 2 book labels to verso title (Harish Kapadia & Roy Ernest Hawkins -1989 Sanctuary Foundation?). Rebound by the previous owner c1994, having been bought from the Alpine Club Library, who had been gifted it by Harish Kapadia, a club member. A Classic and wide-ranging account of Himalayan geology, flora, and topology by the famous naturalist and explorer, who made the first almost complete circuit of Kanchenjunga in 1848-50. A lovely example of a wonderful book! (177*116 mm). (Neate H108. Alpine Club Catalogue p158).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Glasgow, Scotland: The Grand Colosseum Warehouse Co., 1895. Undated [1895]. Worn but complete copy with the two folding maps at rear in good condition. Faded purple cloth with gilt spine lettering, black and white frontis plate, additional illustrations in black and white, 574 pages. Covers spotted, bumped and chipped, internally better with good hinges, sound text block, darkened endpapers, decorative name stamp at top of first pages, pages otherwise a little age-toned but clean, no other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Three smart volumes from the Minerva Library, including Darwin's study of coral reefs and Alfred Russel Wallace's travel account of the Amazon. This set offers three fascinating works from the 'Minerva Library of Famous Books', a series edited by English biologist, anthropologist and scientific author, G. T. Bettany.In the original cloth binding.Featuring important travel accounts and scientific writings from Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Sir J. D. Hooker:'A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley' by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889) - With sixteen plates and four pages of advertisements.'On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; also Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South American Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle' by Charles Darwin (1890) - With six plates, three of which are folding, as well as numerous in-text figures. Six pages of advertisements.'Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c.' by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1891) - With fourteen plates, numerous illustrations in text and a folding map to the rear. Two pages of advertisements.Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the extremities. Rear hinge to 'Himalayan' is weak. Hinges to 'Amazon' are tender. Internally, front free endpaper to 'Himalayan' is detached but present, and chipped to the edges, otherwise set is firmly bound. Pages are marginally age toned, but generally clean. With scattered spotting to the first and last pages of 'Coral Reefs' and a couple ink stains to 'Amazon'. Offsetting to the endpapers of 'Himalayan'. Very Good. book.

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.

First edition, 4to, pp. 286, [2]; map and pictorial endpapers; extensively illustated throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was a close friend of Charles Darwin. He was the first naturalist to travel into the Sikkim Himalaya, through mostly unknown territory which had not been reached by an Englishman since Turner's mission to Tibet in 1789. He made the first near complete circuit of Kangchenjunga in 1848-50, and was the first to describe it.

2 folding maps. 574pp. 8vo. Minerva Library of Famous Books. Minerva Library of Famous Books. 2 folding maps. 574pp. 8vo. Dedicated to Charles Darwin. Yakushi H399a; Abbey, Travel 502; Neate H108 (all for First Editions) Bound in modern brown mottled brown polished calf, red title label. Finr.

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