Author: E. A. Newell Arber
Title: Plant Life in Alpine Switzerland
Description: London, John Murray, 1910. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition account of the natural history of alpine plants in Switzerland. A first edition of this work, in original publisher's cloth binding. This works explores different plant life in Switzerland, including High Alpine Plants, Rock Plants and Shade Plants of the Alpine Forest. This was an early work of English botanist and paleontologist Edward Alexander Newell Arber, who was a professor at the University of Cambridge, specialising in palaeobotany.With 48 plates and many additional vignettes. Collated, complete. In original publisher's green cloth binding. Externally excellent, with just minor shelf wear. Light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The occasional mark to boards. Age toning to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Light age toning and the occasional spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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