Author: Wilfrid Blunt
Title: The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus
Description: London, Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated biography of Carl Linnaeus, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 1973. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, reverse of the frontispiece, and thirty colour plates. Collated complete. A biography of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is often known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Written by Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, an English art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, excellent. original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and creasing to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Author's ink inscription and signature to the title page. Fine . Ill.: Wilfrid Blunt. Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Compleat Naturalist Life Linnaeus Naturalist Wilfrid Blunt
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Title: The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus
Description: London, Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated biography of Carl Linnaeus, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 1973. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, reverse of the frontispiece, and thirty colour plates. Collated complete. A biography of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is often known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Written by Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, an English art teacher, writer, artist and a curator of the Watts Gallery in Compton. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, excellent. original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and creasing to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Author's ink inscription and signature to the title page. Fine . Ill.: Wilfrid Blunt. Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: Compleat Naturalist Life Linnaeus Naturalist Wilfrid Blunt
Price: GBP 90.00 = appr. US$ 128.52 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 916T49
- Book number: 916T49
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