Description

Gand, Annoot-Braeckman, Ad. Hoste, 1898. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). 140 pp., seven phototype plates. Original printed front wrapper. = Signed by the author, the Belgian biologist, conservationist and botanist Jean Massart (1865-1925), to Monsieur P. Groom, on the title. This must be the British botanist Percy Groom (1865-1931), writer of "Elementary botany" (1898), and "Trees and their Life Histories . Illustrated from photographs by Henry Irving" (1907), and whose collection is in Kew Gardens. Each plate contains two or three images, of "typical" Sahara landscapes. This is an offprint, with separate title page, and double page numbering, of the Bulletin de la Société Royale Botanique de Belgique. Uncut. Tiny decommission stamp in the top margin of the front wrapper. A good copy. Rare.