voeller bruce paul cranefield (3 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good. 33 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2. Gray wraps. Mildly tanned at spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Rockefeller University, 1967. Soft cover, 38 pp. One of 2000 copies (unnumbered). In good condition. Grey stiff paper covers with blue illustrations of flowers on front and blue and brown lettering on front. 1" tear to back bottom cover and a few other small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Browning to edges and light overall soiling. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. [From Introduction by Detlev W. Bronk] THIS EXHIBIT OF BOOKS which trace the history of botany in North America celebrates the publication of the first volume of Wild Flowers of The United States. Harold William Rickett is the author of that book which is already a classic. Therein he has described the wild flowers of the northeastern states "from the Atlantic to Minnesota and Missouri and from the Canadian border to Virgima. ." The complete set of volumes will include the wild flowers of all the United States with colored photographs and nontechnical descriptions that may be comprehended by those who prize flowers. William C. Steere,Director of The New York Botanical Garden, is General Editor. The publication of this book is a landmark in the history of botany; it has been sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden. The undertaking has been made possible by the National Committee for the Wild Flowers of the United States under the leadership of Mrs. David Rockefeller and Mr. Diarmuid C. Russell. The publication is dedicated To David and Peggy Rockefeller, without whose enthusiasm and generosity these books could not have been written, illustrated or published."It is fitting that this last, most complete and beautiful of many books describing our precious heritage of flowers should be seen in the company of notable predecessors.The faculty and trustees of The Rockefeller University are grateful to the owners of those treasured volumes for the privilege of holding this exhibit on the campus of the University Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller have done much to make beautiful. It is fitting too that these botanical and literary treasures should first be shown together in the building bears the name of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller who created on Mount Desert Island, Maine, one of the world's most lovely gardens, cared for by "David and Peggy Rockefeller.".

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Two thousand copies were designed and produced by The Rockefeller Press and printed in Janson and Perpetua types on Curtis Rag Paper, 21 x 14 cm., 33, blank, Acknowledgments, list of authors and illustrators, colophon pp., printed in red and black throughout, paper wrappers printed in blue and red brief inscription by an author.