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Libri antichi e moderni

Wilson, Ernest H.

China Mother of Gardens

1929

296,10 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1929
Luogo di stampa
Boston. The Stratford Company
Autore
Wilson, Ernest H.
Edizione
First Edition, the author's signed edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Asia Signed Plant Hunting China
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

large 8vo [26.5 x 18 cm]; [vi], x [i] 408 pp, frontis, plus 60 plates, folding map partly colored at end (short tear at stub), index, title page printed in red and black. original decorated cloth, gilt spine title lettering, top edge gilted, cover lightly rubbed, interior near fine and clean copy, signed by author on the half title plage. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wilson was one of the prime botanical collectors in China and Japan in the early 1900's, introducing many species. Besides his descriptions of the plants he found, including some fascinating adventures in little explored places, he describes the geography, the native peoples and tribes, temples, timber trees, cultivated gardens and fruits, agriculture plant products, tea and tea-yielding plants, etc, during his extensive explorations, including Szechuan, Ancient Kingdom of Pa, Sungpan Ting, the Chino-Tibetan border area, Tachienly, Omei Shan, Laolin. 'He crossed the Laolin from north to south, probably the only European to have done so' [Coats - The Plant Hunters, p. 120]. There is also a much more common unsigned edition printed at the same time.