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The Flora Of The South Indian Hill Stations: Ootacamund, Coonoor, Kotagiri, Kodaikanal, Yeracaud and the country around
by Fyson, P.F
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Madras: The Superintendant, Government Press, 1932. Two volumes. Illustrated with 611 full page plates of simple line drawings, thick octavo, pp xxx, 697, + plates, a little foxing to the fore-edge, otherwise very clean internally, maroon cloth with gilt titles and lines, a little abrasion here and there, but overall an extremely clean set. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby, a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. RARE. [Philip Furley Fyson was a Japanese-born British teacher and botanist who spent much of his working life in India. This work is a revision, with considerable geograohic extension, of his earlier flora of 1915.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Mrs Fyson. Lady Bourne. R Natesan..
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017835
- Title
- The Flora Of The South Indian Hill Stations: Ootacamund, Coonoor, Kotagiri, Kodaikanal, Yeracaud and the country around
- Author
- Fyson, P.F
- Illustrator
- Mrs Fyson. Lady Bourne. R Natesan.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Superintendant, Government Press
- Place of Publication
- Madras
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- india.Nilgiri. Pulney.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Floras;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About Mike Park Ltd
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