turill (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. Paperback. Unpaginated. Rough cut page, foxing to the front and back, else a very good paperback.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. Paperback. Unpaginated. Rough cut page, else a very good paperback.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. New Naturalist Series. Readers Union ed for Collins. pp.xvii.315. Illus; Plates, maps. Collins DW with original archival sleeve; some tape residue on endpapers. Unclipped.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. W. O. Everett (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated horticultural guide to Greek flowers, written by botanist Shirley Clifford Atchley with over twenty vivid colour plates by W. O. Everett. The first edition.In the uncommon publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twenty-one colour plates to the rear of text by W. O. Everett. Collated, complete.This is a lovely horticultural guide to the types of wildflowers that are native to Greece. This work provides the Latin classification of each flower, as well as their modern Greek names.Contents include a foreword by Sir Sydney Waterlow, a note by Ismene Dixon, an editor's preface, with notes and comments on the wild flowers of Attica. The work begins with 'Clematis Cirrhosa L.', and ends with 'Arisarum Vulgare'.Published posthumously after Atchley's death, and was prepared for publication by William Bertram Turrill, an English botanist. Turrill was responsible for the mathematical classification of leaf shapes, and received the Order of the British Empire in 1955.With a former owner's label to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear to back strip tail. Dust wrapper lacking back strip, and thus with front and rear wraps detached from one another. Chipping and small losses to wrap heads. Front wrap age toned. Small handling marks to wraps. Significant closed tear to head of front wrap. Former owner's label to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Published under the authority of the secretary of state for the colonies by the crown agents for the colonies - 1952 - In-8, broché - 30 p. - Planches d'illustrations hors texte en N&B - Ouvrage en anglais Bon état - Auréole (matière grasse?) en bas de la 1ère de couverture et des premières pages, sans incidence sur le texte.