Published by Sagwan Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1340216833 ISBN 13: 9781340216832
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Sagwan Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1340216833 ISBN 13: 9781340216832
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Published by London: John Murray, 1880., 1880
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xviii, [1 leaf], 364. with half-title. 8 wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis.) & numerous wood-engraved text illus. contemporary half chagrin, gilt back (neat gilt library stamp on front cover & lower spine, scattered foxing, generally light but heavier to outer leaves). First Edition. The noted English botanist, formerly of the Royal Gardens at Kew, was sent by Messrs. Veitch to collect plant specimens in Borneo in 1877. He spent two years in the east, also visting Singapore, Jahore, Kina Balu, Labuan Island, Brunei, and the Sulu Islands, and brought back many remarkable plants, especially pitcher-plants, orchids, and ferns, the most outstanding being the Giant Pitcher Plant of Kina Balu ('Nepenthes Rajah'). The first set of the dried specimens which he brought back numbered nearly a thousand species and was presented by Messrs. Veitch to the Kew herbarium. Burbidge's narrative includes remarks on Chinese settlers, gambling, head-hunting, river-side gardening, coal mining, tropical fruits, wild animals, manners and customs of the natives, the Sultan Moumein, a royal boar-hunt with the Sultan of the Sulus, notes on tropical travel, &c., as well as descriptions of plant-hunting. The two appendices on the birds of the Sulu Islands and Kina Balu Mountain were prepared by Bowdler Sharpe from Burbidge's specimens. Casey Wood p. 272.