China: Mother of Gardens.
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1929.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First Edition. With 61 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. x, [ii], 408 pp. Printed by the Alpine Press, Inc, Boston. 1 vols. 8vo. Original decorated black cloth, t.e.g., spine a little dulled. Map not present, else internally fine.
Item #29231
A famous and comprehensive description of the flora of China by the keeper of the Arnold Aboretum, Harvard University, who was responsible for the introduction of over a thousand Chinese plants to the West.
