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MUNZ, PHILIP A. & DAVID D. KECK - A California Flora and Supplement Combined Edition

Title: A California Flora and Supplement Combined Edition
Description: 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 .

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

Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 49119

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