Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Libri antichi e moderni

Gosse, P. H. [Published Anonymously]

Wanderings Through the Conservatories of Kew

1856

218,08 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Parla con il Libraio

Metodi di Pagamento

Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione
1856
Luogo di stampa
London. A. P. C. K.
Autore
Gosse, P. H. [Published Anonymously]
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Gardening - General Botany greenhouse
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

12mo [17 x 11 cm]; vii, 296 pp, 65 wood engraved illustrations, plus extra-illustrated by previous owner including engraved plates on endpaper (Kew Bridge; The Old Palace, Kew), plates of blow-guns illustrating text, etc. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering and decorations, spine ends a little worn, very good+, no ownership marks, compete and with the additional illustrations making this copy unique. A picture of this book is available upon request by One of the scarcer books by this famous naturalist. Freeman-Wertheimer 72: 'A guide to the glasshouses of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Surrey, taken one at a time in a straight-forward manner. Some of the illustrations were drawn from daguerreotypes, apparently the only occasion on which he used this method. Gosse implies that he used the apparatus himself. One woodcut contains Whimper's signature'. The illustrations are detailed and attractive, and include buildings, structures, such as the water tower, the pagoda, etc, and plants, such as orchids, palms, etc.
Logo Maremagnum it