Mcnair James Dahlgren B E (2 results)
Language: English
Published by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 1925
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. front wraps missing; lite chipping, pp. 55-70+ plates. drawings, Tables (illustrator).
More images1898 The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II; 1927 Citrus Products: Part II; 1931 Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras; 1936 The Forests and Flora of British Honduras; 1936 Index of American Palms, and Fossil Palms; 1937 The Genus Bidens: Part I; 1937 The Genus Bidens: Part II.
David Starr Jordan; Barton Warren Evermann; James B. McNair; Paul C. Standley; Samuel J. Record; B. E. Dahlgren; A. C. Noe; Earl Edward Sherff
Published by Government Printing Office; Field Museum of Natural History 1898-1937, Washington; Chicago, 1898
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good Only. First edition. A scarce seven-volume collection of highly illustrated botanical and natural history first editions from the Field Museum of Natural History and the United States National Museum. Collection comprised of:1898 The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II by David Starr Jordan and… Barton Warren Evermann;1927 Citrus Products: Part II by James B. McNair;1931 Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras by Paul C. Standley;1936 The Forests and Flora of British Honduras by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record;1936 Index of American Palms by B. E. Dahlgren, and Fossil Palms by A. C. Noe;1937 The Genus Bidens: Part I by Earl Edward Sherff;1937 The Genus Bidens: Part II by Earl Edward Sherff.All volumes are scarce first editions, bound in the publisher's original soft covers. Excluding The Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II, which is a bulletin of the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, all remaining works are the publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.Citrus Products: Part II contains a frontispiece and sixteen further plates. Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras contains sixty-seven plates to the rear. The Forests and Flora of British Honduras contains sixteen pages of plates to the rear, including the back cover. Both parts of The Genus Bidens are profusely illustrated with 189 plates across the two texts. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original soft covers. Ex-libris copies with archival annotations to the spines and front covers and again to the rear of the front free endpapers. Additional library stamps to title pages and at points throughout texts, for example to the rear of plates. Externally, moderate shelf wear, as can be expected from examples of this age, with several tears and chips to edges, more signficant to the front cover of The Forests and Flora of British Honduras, which also features a chip to the spine tail. Light discolouration, spotting and marking to all works, sunning more prominent to Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras and Index of American Palms. Internally, generally firmly bound, fragile front hinges leading to the occasional delicate page. Bright and clean collection with any spotting mainly contained to the first and last few pages. Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
