Brenan J P Preface (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, in clear brodart, very good. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Life and work of the great artist of botanical paintings. Record # 33422.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 240 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Color frontispiece and color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good, wrapped in protective clear plastic brodart. Top edge has just a little bit of foxing. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. In very nice condition. The first collection in book form of Marianne North's fabulously detailed and exotic botanical paintings, also contains excerpts from her autobiography and vivid travel memoirs. Record # 32232.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American 4to, paper-covered boards. 240 pp, 134 illustrations (132 in color), index. North was born in 1830 to an artistic and prosperous family. After the death of her father when she was 39 (her mother had died years earlier), she began a series of journeys around the world for the purpose of painting flora and fauna. In 1879 her offer to fund the construction of a gallery to house her collection was accepted enthusiastically by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. North died in 1890. 0030574536 Very good in dj.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st thus. 240pp. Richly illustrated in colour. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on upper panel, gilt titles to spine. Maps on endpapers. 8vo. Cloth is moderately rounded on corners and a little pushed at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated, laminated dust wrapper, shelf worn and bumped on extreme edges, a couple of minor scratches on rear panel. Marianne North (1830-1890) was a biologist and botanical artist, remarkable for her prolific output of plant and landscape paintings (many of which were painted during her extensive foreign travels), her writings and her plant discoveries. Many of her painting, several reproduced in this volume, are held in a special gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, London.…

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: V.g. Dust Jacket Condition: V.g. Abridged edition. An account, largely in her own words, of the intercontinental travels of an intrepid woman artist specialising in botanical landscapes, Marianne North, who is celebrated by having her own picture gallery at Kew (built at her own expense). An enthralling read; not quite up to the standard of "love among the butterflies", but still a fascinating account of one Victorian's odyssey. She was descended from Dudley, the 4th Lord North. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.…

Hard covers, no dust jacket. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st US edition. An account, largely in her own words, of the intercontinental travels of an intrepid woman artist specialising in botanical landscapes, Marianne North, who is celebrated by having her own picture gallery at Kew (built at her own expense). Abridged from her autobiography first published in 1893 under the title 'Recollections of a happy life'. An enthralling read; not quite up to the standard of "love among the butterflies", sadly, but still a fascinating account of one Victorian's odyssey. She was descended from Dudley, the 4th Lord North. 240 pp. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HMSO (London) hardcover in dust jacket, 1996 (5th impression), very clean, No marks or signs of use, light surface wear to jacket (no tears); Fine/Near Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers. "A Vision of Eden: The Life and Work of Mariannne North" in association with The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Published.in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 4to. With jacket. 240 pp Copiously illustrated with colour plates of North's splendid botanical paintings throughout. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE.

239 pp, small quarto, map on end-papers, coloured plates and illustrations, near fine copy in like, illustrated d/j.

Exeter, Webb & Bower, 1980, small in-4°, 240 pp, numerous coloured ills and plates, bibliography, index, publisher's cloth, dustwrapper.