The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution

Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver [trans.]

Published by Blackie and Son 1897-1898, London, 1897

About this Item

The popular edition Von Kerner's exploration of botany and plant sociology, with beautiful colour plates, complete in six half-volumes. The subscription edition of The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution, written by Austrian botanist Anton Kerner von Marilaun, translated and edited by English botanist Francis Wall Oliver. Published between 1897-1898, first published in 1894-1895. A complete set in six sub-volumes. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates. Collated complete. Considered to be among the best works on botany in its generation, Kerner's comprehensive work appeals to both avid students and the general public. Illustrated with both diagrams and beautiful colour plates, readers can admire and enjoy learning the intricacies of plant structures and their surroundings. - Volume I, including the Introduction and the Living Principle in Plants. Contains a frontispiece of Kerner and plates I-III.- Volume II, including the Absorption of Nutriment, Conduction of Food and Formation of Organic Matter from food. Contains plates IV-V.- Volume III, including Growth and Construction of Plants and Plant-Forms as Completed Structures, and the introductory and title leaves to the 1898 edition to the rear. Contains plates VI-VIII.- Volume IV, including the Genesis of Plant Offspring. Contains plates IX-XIII.- Volume V, including the History of Species. Contains Plate XIV.- Volume VI, including the Classification of Plants Proposed by the Editor. Contains Plates XV-XVI. Volume II prefatory note and title leaves adjoined to rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd faint mark to rear board extremities, light to front boards of IV and VI. Minor rubbing to joints and edges, with slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Brown end papers are clean with a couple of faint marks. Internally, firmly bound. Tissue guards stuck to the occasional plate, with minor wear to Plate XIV corner in V. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution
• Publisher: Blackie and Son 1897-1898, London
• Publication Date: 1897
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Various
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book