SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN

Guide to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden / Guide to the Nature Trail

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1963. Paperback. Trade PB. B&W Illustrations; This Trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book covers are generally clean, but there is some light toning to the top edge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Garden was founded in 1926 and designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. By 1936 its focus had narrowed to plants native to the California Floristic Province (which includes a bit of southwestern Oregon and part of Baja California, as well as most of the state of California). The Garden became a Santa Barbara County Historical Landmark in 1983 (the dam on Mission Creek was already designated as a State Historic Landmark). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 50209

Catalogue: Botany

Keywords: Botany Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Californiana California Plants

MUNZ, PHILIP A. & DAVID D. KECK

A California Flora and Supplement Combined Edition

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1973. Combined Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0520024052. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there are several beginning edge tears and nicks. There is a crease to the center of the dust jacket spine. "Philip Alexander Munz (1892–1974) was an American botanist, plant taxonomist and educator who worked at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and was a professor of botany at Pomona College, serving as dean there for three years. In 1935 Munz published his Manual of Southern California Botany. Munz compiled the voluminous A California Flora with David D. Keck, published by the University of California Press in 1959, and with a supplement published in 1968. Munz published A California Flora without any research support and with a relatively small subvention for publication from the University of California Press. In 1974, his book A Flora of Southern California was published posthumously, with the botanical families presented in an alphabetical order. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 49119

Catalogue: Botany

Keywords: 0520024052 Philip A. Munz David A. Keck Botany Nature Californiana California Plants