KINGO MIYABE (text in Japanese) in original card slipcase
by Miyabe, Kingo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Sapporo: Miyabekingo Hakushi Kinen Shuppan Kanko-kai. Very Good+. 1953. Hardcover. 365 pages; Clean and secure in original tan boards, sharp corners; house in original printed card slipcase with wearcorner, slipcase cracked at top and bottom of back. OCLC 834669109 This is an extensive biography of the noted botanist and agricultural scientist Miyabe Kingo (1860-1951), printed in Japanese with two photographic portaits of Miyabe and a few black and white illustrations in text. Born in Edo on 27 April 1860, Miyabe was among the second class of students to be admitted to Sapporo Agricultural College. He has been dubbed one of the three geniuses alongside Kanzo Uchimura and Inazo Nitobe. He graduated from Sapporo Agricultural College in 1881, researched at the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, became an assistant at Sapporo Agricultural College and worked on the design of the botanical garden and herbarium. He was accepted to Harvard University in 1886, returned to Japan in 1889, became a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College and devoted himself to researching the biogeography of northern flora, phytopathology and mycology. His published works include The Flora of the Kurile Islands (1890), The Laminariaceae of Hokkaido (1902), Plants in Sakhalin (1915, co-authored with Tsutome Miyake), and Flora of Hokkaido and Saghalien (co-authored with Yushun Kudo). He received the Order of Cultural Merit in 1946, became an honorary citizen of Sapporo City in 1949 and a member of the Japan Academy in 1950. Miyabe died in 1951 at the age of 91. [Hokkaido University Museum]. .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43356
- Title
- KINGO MIYABE (text in Japanese) in original card slipcase
- Author
- Miyabe, Kingo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- Miyabekingo Hakushi Kinen Shuppan Kanko-kai
- Place of Publication
- Sapporo
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Miyabe Kingo, Hokkaido Botany, Japanese Botany, Sapporo Agricultural College, Japanese Horticulture, Garden Design, Landscape Design
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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