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Journal of David Douglas Travels in North America 1823-1827 Plant Hunting 1914
Journal of David Douglas Travels in North America 1823-1827 Plant Hunting 1914
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Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America, 1823-1827
Together with a Particular Description of Thirty-Three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus
With Appendices Containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Douglas and an Account of His Death in 1834
London: William Wesley & Son for the Royal Horticultural Society, 1914. First Edition. Tall 8vo, cloth, hardback with gilt emblem of the Royal Horticultural Societ to upper board. 364 pages.
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A good copy but in boards that are somewhat discoloured. Endpapers good with no writing. All contents present and pages clean throughout. Overall a very good first edition with exception of the boards.
David Douglas was a Scottish botanist who made three separate exploration trips from England to North America. The Second expedition starting in 1824 was his most successful. The Royal Horticultural Society sent him back on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest that ranks among the great botanical explorations of the generation. Douglas introduced the Douglas-fir into cultivation in 1827 as well as several other trees including the Sugar Pine and the Noble Fir. These trees transformed the British Landscape and timber industry.
(Loc : Natural History, Top Shelf)
Together with a Particular Description of Thirty-Three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus
With Appendices Containing a List of the Plants Introduced by Douglas and an Account of His Death in 1834
London: William Wesley & Son for the Royal Horticultural Society, 1914. First Edition. Tall 8vo, cloth, hardback with gilt emblem of the Royal Horticultural Societ to upper board. 364 pages.
CONDITION
A good copy but in boards that are somewhat discoloured. Endpapers good with no writing. All contents present and pages clean throughout. Overall a very good first edition with exception of the boards.
David Douglas was a Scottish botanist who made three separate exploration trips from England to North America. The Second expedition starting in 1824 was his most successful. The Royal Horticultural Society sent him back on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest that ranks among the great botanical explorations of the generation. Douglas introduced the Douglas-fir into cultivation in 1827 as well as several other trees including the Sugar Pine and the Noble Fir. These trees transformed the British Landscape and timber industry.
(Loc : Natural History, Top Shelf)
