Author: Lawrence, George H.M., Buchheim, A.F.G., Daniels, Gilbert S. & Dolezal, Helmut (eds)
Title: B-P-H: Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum
Description: Hunt Botanical Library, Pittsburgh, 1968.1st edition.Publisher's dark green cloth, no dust jacket.V.g./ No Jacket .V.g.Facsimile of computer database output, arranged alphabetically, listing virtually all known botanical periodicals with both standardised and variant titles.A bibliographic masterpiece, and one of the key reference works for plant taxonomists and botany librarians.This book also contains a number of more general titles, even including publications of the Quekett Microscopical Club.There is no index, but Appendix 1 contains a list of words and abbreviations with their often varied expanded equivalents.There is also a fascinating 'Political Chronology' (Appendix 2) giving details of places of publication (in English) and their historical variants.The book concludes with the wise epitaph by Alexander Pope: ""Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor ne'er will be."" 1063 pp.As this is a heavy book, please ask for a transport quotation when ordering. In English.2.8 kg.

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