Marin Flora; Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Marin County, California [Signed]; photographs by Charles T. Townsend
by Howell, John Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Minor wear; wee bit of foading to sine. No jacket. Signed by Howell on title page.
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear; wee bit of foading to sine. No jacket. Signed by Howell on title page.. Smal quarto in polished bright green limp cloth; vii, 322 pages illustrations, maps 22 cm. "Principal references": page 295. A nice copy of the first edition sans jacket. / "John Thomas Howell (1903 - 1994) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He became an expert of Eriogonum (buckwheat) species, which are widely represented in the native California flora. He was the assistant of Alice Eastwood (1859â1953), the renowned botanist and botanical collection director at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California."-Wikipedia ¶ Plant ecology. Angiosperms. Magnoliopsida Ãcologie végétale. Angiospermes. Angiospermae (division) Angiosperms Botany Plant ecology Angiosperms -- Identification. Geographic: United States California -- Marin County Howell, John Thomas, 1903-1994.
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- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
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- Title
- Marin Flora; Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Marin County, California [Signed]; photographs by Charles T. Townsend
- Author
- Howell, John Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor wear; wee bit of foading to sine. No jacket. Signed by Howell on title page.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1949
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- Botany;
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