Author:
WILSON Ernest Henry
Title:
A Naturalist In Western China With Vasculum, Camera, And Gun, Being Some Account Of Eleven Year's Travel Exploration, And Observations In The More Remote Parts Of The Flowery Kingdom
Price:
£400.00
Year:
1913
Edition:
1st Edn
Publisher:
Methun & Co Ltd
Summary:
2 volumes, xxxvii 251 pages + xi 239 pages, 31 pages of adverts, 101 full page illustrations and folding map. Some light spotting to each volume, small bookplate of G H Wyatt to front free end paper, publishers red cloth, gilt title to upper board, small bump to upper outer corner of front board on Vol. I, o/w vg+ cloth clean and bright. Wilson was one of the most important plant collectors of teh early twentieth century also collected zoological specimans including river deer, muntjac, his partner Walter Zappey hunted Seron, Goral and Takin. Czech 229/230
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