Author: David Douglas
Title: Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823-1827
Description: London , William Wesley, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by David Douglas. Together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American Oaks and eighteen species of pinus with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. David Douglas was a Scottish botanist who made three separate exploration trips from England to North America. The Second expedition starting in 1824 was his most successful. The Royal Horticultural Society sent him back on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest that ranks among the great botanical explorations of the generation. Douglas introduced the Douglas-fir into cultivation in 1827 as well as several other trees including the Sugar Pine and the Noble Fir. These trees transformed the British Landscape and timber industry. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some rubbing and bumping. Sunning and light marking to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, spotted to first and last but otherwise clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: David Douglas Oaks Scotland Botanist Oaks None
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Title: Journal Kept by David Douglas During His Travels in North America 1823-1827
Description: London , William Wesley, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by David Douglas. Together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American Oaks and eighteen species of pinus with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. David Douglas was a Scottish botanist who made three separate exploration trips from England to North America. The Second expedition starting in 1824 was his most successful. The Royal Horticultural Society sent him back on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest that ranks among the great botanical explorations of the generation. Douglas introduced the Douglas-fir into cultivation in 1827 as well as several other trees including the Sugar Pine and the Noble Fir. These trees transformed the British Landscape and timber industry. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some rubbing and bumping. Sunning and light marking to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, spotted to first and last but otherwise clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: David Douglas Oaks Scotland Botanist Oaks None
Price: GBP 625.00 = appr. US$ 892.49 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: GEN30-H-7
- Book number: GEN30-H-7
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