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London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1925. Third edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 111 plates (many of them coloured), several small woodcuts in the text, thick octavo, pp xxxii, 296, very clean internally, green cloth, the binding leaning as usual, otherwise a very good copy. . Third edition. Cloth. Good.
The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Rock, Joseph F - 1913
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Honolulu: Privately published under patronage, 1913. Well illustrated, large thick octavo, pp (6), 518, one internal gathering weak, the hinge at the title page cracked and a little weak, a slight stain following the title page, otherwise clean internally, green cloth slightly worn the spine with several snags and tears. Originally a gift from Dean Eric Faigle to Syracuse University Library, with their bookplate on the front endpaper, a blindstamp on the title page and an ink number on the dedication page. [Rock worked for thirteen years in Hawaii, before his major expeditions to China.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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