Author: John Hutchinson
Title: A Botanist in Southern Africa
Description: London, P. R. Gawthorn, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this botanical work examining the author's months spent in South Africa, richly illustrated throughout. The author travelled to South Africa twice to collect botanical samples, between 1928 and 1929, and in 1930. This work details those journeys in detail.Written by John Hutchinson, a botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, awarded the Linnaean Gold Medal and awarded an O.B.E.A first edition of this work.Lacking the dust wrapper.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece of Jan Smuts, as well as maps, photographs and drawings throughout the text. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a little wear to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine and a touch of discolouration to the spine. Internally, front hinge is strained after the frontispiece, otherwise firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: John Hutchinson Africa South Africa Botany Africa Travelogue Not Stated


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