Published by New York Botanical Garden, New York, 1932
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 969pp. Line drawings. Very good. Mild edgewear only, else tight and internally fine. Handsome first edition of the posthumous final volume from the Swedish-born American botanist and incredibly prolific researcher (1860-1931) who served as the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium's first director. The book's editor, writer Marshall A. Howe, in his preface explains how Rydberg asked him to edit and complete the nearly-finished book "A few days before his lamented death." Rather scarce and a lovely copy.