Item #40059 DUTCH N.W. NEW GUINEA. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND FLORA OF THE ARFAK MOUNTAINS, ETC.; WITH FOUR PLATES AND SIXTEEN TEXT-FIGURES. L. S. Gibbs.

DUTCH N.W. NEW GUINEA. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND FLORA OF THE ARFAK MOUNTAINS, ETC.; WITH FOUR PLATES AND SIXTEEN TEXT-FIGURES

London: Taylor and Francis, 1917. First edition. Limp card cover. Item #40059

Read before the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Sciences, September 1916. 226 pages with four photographic plates, illustrations, general characters of the country, itinerary and descriptive account of vegetation, plant associations of the low mountain forest formation, systematic account of the plants collected, and index. Bound in orginal blue paper covered limp boards with lettering in black. Water staining to spine and a quarter into the covers, and along the interior gutters between the endpapers. The text is unaffected. Several corrections to the spelling in the text. A good copy of a scarce first edition.

Price: $75.00