The Tradescants : their plants, gardens and museum, 1570-1662
1964, 1st Edition. London : M. Joseph. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: previous owner's inscription. Item #336700
Physical description: 345 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, folded genealogical table, maps, plates (some color) portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Appendices (p. [233]-312): I. The garden list of John Tradescant the Elder, 1634.--II. Musaeum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, by J. Tradescant. 1656. Subjects: Tradescant, John -1637. Tradescant (Family). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Horticulture History. Horticulture. Horticulture Great Britain History. Horticulturists Great Britain Biography. Plant collectors. Plant Taxonomy. Genre: Biographies. History. Illustrated.
Price: €45.00