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Aitchison, J. E. T.

The Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission.

120.00 €

Schierenberg Bookshop Antiquariaat

(Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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Aitchison, J. E. T.

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London, Linnean Society of London, 1888. 4to. 139 pp.; 48 lithographed plates (two double-sized, double numbered) and two large, folded maps. Contemporary half calf over pebbled boards. = An important, early, well-illustrated flora of Afghanistan, containing many new or poorly known species. James Aitchison (1836-1898) was a British botanist who joined the Bengal Medical Service in 1858 and collected in India (1861-1872) and in Afghanistan (1879-1883). Spine cover perished, boards detached, serial title detached and chipped at edges; plates, text and maps clean, undamaged. Needs rebinding but otherwise a good to very copy. Not in Stafleu and Cowan.
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