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HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON - The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843
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HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843
under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.
Flora Novae Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering Plants. [London: Lovell Reeve 1853]. [4]p, xxxix, 312p, 70 colour plates. Dedicated to William Colenso, Andrew Sinclair and David Lyall. Text and plates crisp and clean. 320mm, bound in full leather, title labels on spine 'The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage', 'Vol. V'. and 'Flora Zelandiae I'. Front hinge, leather splitting from text block but holding. Text and plates crisp and clean.
'In this splendid publication Hooker completed the first comprehensive descriptions of all then discovered flowering plants and ferns with in Pt II, the cryptograms...’Bagnall 2654.
Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and explorer, was founder of geographical botany and a close friend to Charles Darwin. When 22 years of age he was appointed naturalist and assistant surgeon to Sir James Ross’s 1839-43 expedition exploring the Antarctic coast, Tasmania, New Zealand and the islands of the Southern Ocean. He spent 3 months in New Zealand and its offshore islands collecting over 400 species of plants.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843
under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.
Flora Novae Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering Plants. [London: Lovell Reeve 1853]. [4]p, xxxix, 312p, 70 colour plates. Dedicated to William Colenso, Andrew Sinclair and David Lyall. Text and plates crisp and clean. 320mm, bound in full leather, title labels on spine 'The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage', 'Vol. V'. and 'Flora Zelandiae I'. Front hinge, leather splitting from text block but holding. Text and plates crisp and clean.
'In this splendid publication Hooker completed the first comprehensive descriptions of all then discovered flowering plants and ferns with in Pt II, the cryptograms...’Bagnall 2654.
Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and explorer, was founder of geographical botany and a close friend to Charles Darwin. When 22 years of age he was appointed naturalist and assistant surgeon to Sir James Ross’s 1839-43 expedition exploring the Antarctic coast, Tasmania, New Zealand and the islands of the Southern Ocean. He spent 3 months in New Zealand and its offshore islands collecting over 400 species of plants.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
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