Author: CAMERON, H. C.
Title: Sir Joseph Banks. The Autocrat of the Philosophers 1744-1820.
Description: First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xx, 341; illustrated portrait frontispiece, 8 pages illustrations (2 photo's), appendix, dates, references, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, damaged dustjacket, bookplate on front endpaper, good copy. London; The Batchworth Press; 1952. ".this book is based largely upon unpublished manuscripts, sufficient to enable the attempt to be made to trace the story of his life from the point where his Journal of his voyage with Captain Cook ends, and he stepped ashore at Gravesend to find himself the centre of interest in London Society. The many sided interests of this man have been described in what are a series of essays of absorbing interest."
Keywords: die mar Australian history botany maritime biography discovery and exploration Sir Joseph Banks natural history
Title: Sir Joseph Banks. The Autocrat of the Philosophers 1744-1820.
Description: First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xx, 341; illustrated portrait frontispiece, 8 pages illustrations (2 photo's), appendix, dates, references, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, damaged dustjacket, bookplate on front endpaper, good copy. London; The Batchworth Press; 1952. ".this book is based largely upon unpublished manuscripts, sufficient to enable the attempt to be made to trace the story of his life from the point where his Journal of his voyage with Captain Cook ends, and he stepped ashore at Gravesend to find himself the centre of interest in London Society. The many sided interests of this man have been described in what are a series of essays of absorbing interest."
Keywords: die mar Australian history botany maritime biography discovery and exploration Sir Joseph Banks natural history
Price: AUD 33.00 = appr. US$ 22.83 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 113870
- Book number: 113870