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London: Michael Joseph. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ has some light wear around the edges. Spine is beginning to crack at the title page. .

London: Michael Joseph, 1964. 345pp, family tree, index, bibliography, references, appendices, bw ills, col frontis, pictorial endpapers. Green cloth in jacket. Somewhat musty, a couple of related clippings loosely inserted, prev owner name on front free endpaper and half-title. , light foxing to page edgesJacket price clipped with slight edge wear and rubbing, top of rear flap silverfished. The Tradescants were royal gardeners at the time of Charles I & II. During the upheaval of the Commonwealth they continued plant-hunting and brought the first lilac to England, as well as hundreds of flowers and trees familiar in today's gardens.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Michael Joseph, 1964. Jacket rubbed and chipped, owner details to ffep, content clean and tidy.. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London,: Michael Joseph,, 1964. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 345pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine titles. Slight wear otherwise very good indeed in a slightly edge rubbed and chipped, near very good dust jacket.

London : M. Joseph, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: previous owner's inscription. Physical description: 345 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, folded genealogical table, maps, plates (some color) portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Appendices (p. [233]-312): I. The garden list of John Tradescant the Elder, 1634.--II. Musaeum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, by J. Tradescant. 1656. Subjects: Tradescant, John -1637. Tradescant (Family). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Horticulture History. Horticulture. Horticulture Great Britain History. Horticulturists Great Britain Biography. Plant collectors. Plant Taxonomy. Genre: Biographies. History. Illustrated.

London: Michael Joseph, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 6" . Not Stated . A bright first edition in its colourful dust wrapper of this biography and study of John Tradescant and his son by Mea Allan. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece as well as twenty-six further black and white plates including reproductions of excellent portraits of the Tradescant family by Wenceslaus Hollar. Collated, complete/ Study of the work John Tradescant and his son, royal gardeners in the times of Charles I and Charles II. The Tradescants were one of the first botanists to collect specimens of plants, bringing to England its first lilac as well as hundred of the flowers and trees that we know in our gardens today. Written by Mea Allan, journalist of the twentieth century. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine

London: Michael Joseph, 1964. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo.. hardback with dust jacket 345pp., col. frontis. & b/w pls., appends, bibliog., index,