An Account of the Genus Meconopsis.
by Taylor, George
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: New Flora and Silva Ltd, 1934. First edition of Taylor's best-known work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece, 29 plates from photographs and 12 distributional maps. In very good condition. Small ownership name. Scottish botanist Sir George Taylor was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1968. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1956 to 1971. During this time (1965 to 1969) he was also responsible for the creation of the Queen's Garden at Kew Palace. Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It was created by French botanist Viguier in 1814 for the species known by the common name Welsh poppy, which Carl Linnaeus had described as Papaver cambricum. The genus name means "poppy-like".
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137344
- Title
- An Account of the Genus Meconopsis.
- Author
- Taylor, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Flora and Silva Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- An Account of the Genus Meconopsis First Edition, William Wright Smith First Edition
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