Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae.
by KENT, Adolphus H
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About This Item
1900. James Veitch & Sons, Ltd. 1900. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt vignettes and black stamped borders to sides, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 562 + [i], illustrated throughout; very good. Provenance: verso of title page with ownership inscription of W.V. Legge (1841-1918), the Australian soldier and ornithologist most famous for his magisterial History of the Birds of Ceylon. Also included is a letter to Legge from the Department of Agriculture in Tasmania in response to what was clearly a rather terse previous exchange on the precise taxonomy of the Douglas Fir: " In deference to the tenor of your marginal note on the Douglas Fir...Douglas fir is scientifically neither a fir nor a spruce…". Second edition of the Veitch nursery's manual to conifers, greatly enlarged by Kent.
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- Bookseller
- Henry Sotheran Ltd. (GB)
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- Title
- Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae.
- Author
- KENT, Adolphus H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1900
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