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Fairchild, David

Garden Islands of the Great East; Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk "Cheng Ho"

1943

39.48 €

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Year of publication
1943
Place of printing
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons
Author
Fairchild, David
Edition
First edition, first issue with the 'A' on the verso title.
Keyword
Travel - Pacific & Australia Plant Hunting
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

large 8vo [24 x 16 cm], xiv, 239 pp, frontis, well illustrated from photos, pictorial endpapers, index. original cloth, silver title lettering on spine and front cover, minimal rubbing to edge, else fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. By the well-known American plant and seed collector; he had a tropical garden in Florida named after him. This book includes numerous fascinating photos, mainly of plant life but also of the native peoples, throughout the Malaya archipelago and related islands. Fairchild and his party were the last Americans to visit the Celebes and the Moluccas before the Japanese invaded in 1940.