Flores Silvestres de Chile, Carlos Muñoz Pizarro.

Flores Silvestres de Chile, Carlos Muñoz Pizarro. Flores Silvestres de Chile. ILUSTRACIONES A TODA PÁGINA Y COLOR DE SERRA RAFOLS Carlos Muñoz Pizarro. Ediciones de la Universidad de Chile, 1966, 245 páginas - Prólogo de Sir George Taylor - 51 láminas originales de Eugenio Sierra Ráfols - Tela con sobrecubierta (bordes de la s/c con roturas) - Por lo demás muy buen estado Original grey cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; small tape stains to endpapers; pp. 245, incl. index; 51 colour plates after Eugenio Sierra Ráfols; scattered light foxing. Near fine condition. Exceedingly scarce and beautiful monograph on Chilean flora: WorldCat finds just 3 repositories. "Chile has a very special interest for the horticultural world. From this country have come many of the choicest and bestknown shrubs and herbs which are hardy in our north temperate gardens. These were first introduced here in the nineteenth century by collectors for Sir William and Sir Joseph Hooker, Directors of Kew, or by men sent out by the firm of Veitch. The Kew collectors were often Scotsmen such as Alexander Caldcleugh, Alexander Cruckshanks, John Gillies and James Macrae; or Englishmen like Hugh Cuming and Thomas Bridges; while the most distinguished Veitch collectors were William Lobb and Richard Pearce. The successful introductions by these men included such attractive plants as LAPAGERIA, PHILESIA, EURCRYPHIA, DESFONTAINEA and EMBOTHRIUM, and, in our own day, Clarence Elliott and Harold Comber have added others, for instance, ALSTROEMERIA LIGTU and LEUCOCORYNE. Some Chilean plants, in some form or other, have reached the humblest cottages. All these and very many equally famous shrubs and herbs which are always in request by gardeners in temperate climates have been illustrated in this book by the exceedingly beautiful paintings of señor Eugenio Sierra Ráfols, Assistant of Botany at the University of Chile, while the admirable accompanying text, giving a brief history of each plant and details of its biology and uses, has been written by Professor Carlos Muñoz Pizarro, who is Professor of Economic Botany at the University, and also a staff member of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural at Santiago." - Prologue by Sir George Taylor, director of the Royal Botanical Gardens. Pregunta antes de pujar. Para envios y pagos en el extrajero, preguntame por los precios. Para España, 10€. Démandez-vous quelq’un titule, edition…Ask me by any book