Moon Brenda Biographical Notes (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj is price clipped.

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.…

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