Mint Condition, this book is all original and has 364 full color illustrations of wildflowers. This is a heavy book at 6+ pounds, it will ship by Media Mail for savings. It is 2 volumes in one. Published without a dust jacket.
Book is dated 1936, First Edition Third Printing, Hardcover Heavily illustrated in color.
362 pages. 9¾" - 12" tall
American botanist from New York State. Homer House worked as a researcher and as a professor at numerous institutions in New York, Washington DC and the Carolinas. An impressive work, cataloguing much of the more important herbaceous plants with impressive photographic clarity. In the intervening ninety years, many of the plants illustrated have become well-used garden plants. His herbarium is estimated to contain 27,000 specimens.
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