Brett-James, N.G.
The life of Peter Collinson
Privately published; printed by Edgar G.Dunstan & Co. n.d.[1926].1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Light foxing to prelims.Peter Collinson played an influential role in introducing new plants into cultivation in England.Many were sourced from John Bartram, the Philadelphia Quaker botanist who established the first botanic garden in the U.S.A.at Kingsessing on the banks of the Schuykill River.Collinson, an active Fellow of the Royal Society, was also a Quaker.He was in close touch with fellow Quaker botanist John Fothergill as well as with a set of wealthy landowners, many of whom were his customers, as he also owned a haberdashery business in London.287, (5) pp. In English.1.0 kg.
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