Macqueen Cowan J (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is clean and tight, slight spine lean. Dust jacket has wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Turquoise Cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front board, 250 x 160 mm approx. xii + 252 pp. b/w frontis + 105 other photo illustrations of which 7 in colour on 83 plates + fold out map to rear all as called for. Published by OUP for The Royal Horticultural Society. 1952 First Edition. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good / Poor (Book- shelf wear to extremities of cloth boards- colour rubbing only, ink gift insc. Christmas 1953 to front free end paper, hint of foxing to paste downs. Dust Jacket- Numerous significant chips/loss and heavily rubbed, white titles a little tanned, mild to moderate foxing to rear panel and flap folds). No other notable defects). A sound reading / reference copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published for The Royal Horticultural Society. There are 85 monochrome illustrations printed in gravure, and these include many taken by Forrest himself of the plants in their natural habitats. There are also five color plates which include some of his most outstanding introductions such plants as Gentiana sinoornata, Rhododendron Griersonianum Primula malacoides and Pieris Forrestii. Color folding map tipped in at rear, index, 252 pages. Clean unmarked copy, dust jacket has two tears at bottom of front panel, some light wear to edges, dj in mylar.…

Hard Back. Condition: Book Very Good. No Dustjacket. 85 pages. B&W plates. Very clean sandy-brown binding, light wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Endpapers & page-edges lightly browned/spotted o/w contents clean.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, a few tears and toning/spotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. lovely copy and dust wrapper- no inscriptions or notes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. H/b; vg-; 8vo; 85pp; spine faded; illustrated with b/w photographic plates; for older children or adults; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pages.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.

8vo [25 x 16 cm]; xi, 252 pp, frontis (port), numerous illustrations from photos and drwgs, 5 color plates, color folding map, appendix of his rhododendrons, index. original cloth, dj (chipped at spine end and corners), fine & clean in good+ dj. Forrest collected plants in Western China, Upper Burma and Eastern Tibet from 1904 to 1931 and introduced many new plants, especially rhododendrons and primulas, but many others. E. H. M. Cox wrote the chapter on his journeys with a personal account of Forrest by Sir William Wright Smith. An interesting and important book on one of the most significant plant collectors of the 20th century. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Stain to upper page ends. DJ with some edge wear, some age tone/spotting and creasing.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xi, 252 with col. & b/w. plates and col. folding map. 8vo. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, o/w. a fine hardback in good to vg. dw. George Forrest (18731932) was a Scottish botanist, who became one of the first western explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country. Altogether, Forrest made seven trips to Yunnan, collecting samples and seeds for the Herbarium and for avid collectors willing to pay for new species to add to their collections. In total, he brought back perhaps 31,000 plant specimens.…

8vo [25 x 16 cm]; xi, 252 pp, frontis (portrait), numerous illustrations from photos and drawings, 5 colour plates, colour fldg map, appendix of his rhododendrons, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, dj (slightly soiled on rear, not price clipped), bookplate in endpaper else fine & clean in near fine dj. Forrest collected plants in Western China, Upper Burma and Eastern Tibet from 1904 to 1931 and introduced many new plants, especially rhododendrons and primulas, but many others. E. H. M. Cox wrote the chapter on his journeys with a personal account of Forrest by Sir William Wright Smith. An interesting and important book on one of the most significant plant collectors of the 20th century. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xi, 252 with plates and folding map. Some neat annotations to text in pencil and old invoice for this book pasted to rear turn-in of dw. A two page plant list had been stapled to the ffep. Hardback in thor. vg. condition in chipped dw., with some loss.

Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Four inch closed tear to dustjacket. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. Previous owner's name stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise a Tight, sound, unmarked copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1952. Original green cloth, gilt lettering front & spine. The book is in nice condition with clean covers, no fading, no foxing, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding. The original dust jacket has a 15mm loss across top spine, clean 4cm tear rear, couple of 1cm chips front. The book measures 248mm tall x 155mm, and has 252 pages, 5 color & 101 b/w photos, folding map, index. Fine PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.…