Description:
Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens. 2006. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Only flaw is a gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs as well as beautiful botanical illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 213 pages. This book ranges well beyond the boundaries of the garden. It is a story of lessons heeded and unheeded - of Aboriginal environmental management, adaption to arid lands, plant fashions, and the changing face of horticulture, landscape design, and botany. The book charts the role of the botanic garden as an agent for change. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Seeds of Change: An Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden Hardcover - 2006
by Richard Aitken
Details
- Title Seeds of Change: An Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden
- Author Richard Aitken
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 213
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Board of Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, Adelaide
- Date 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780646461373 / 0646461370
- Library of Congress subjects Adelaide Botanic Gardens - History, Botanical gardens - Australia - Adelaide
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007405598
- Dewey Decimal Code 580.739
More Copies for Sale
Seeds of Change. An illustrated history of Adelaide Botanic Garden
by Aitken, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780646461373 / 0646461370
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
- Item Price
-
A$120.00A$26.00 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
A$120.00
A$26.00
shipping to USA
More Photos
Seeds Of Change: An Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden
by Aitken, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780646461373 / 0646461370
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
- Item Price
-
A$125.00A$39.50 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium, 2006. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Excellent. Lavish pictorial history of Adelaide's Botanic Garden. First Edition [Board of the Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium, Adelaide, 2006]; x, 214 pages; blue cloth, white titling on spine, minor shelfwear at base of spine, a fine copy; in excellent illustrated dustjacket, light scratches on rear. Published to coincide with the 150 year anniversary of the Botanic Garden. Richly illustrated with beautiful botanical illustrations & archival photographs. "This is much more than just the story of a much-loved garden - it is a microcosm of plants & people in the Australian environment". ISBN: 9780646461373 / 0 646 46137 0
Item Price
A$125.00
A$39.50
shipping to USA