Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker traveller and plant collector

by Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir

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First edition

Woodbridge, Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1999 . First edition, 4to, pp. 286, 2 ; map and pictorial endpapers; extensively illustated throughout in color and black & white; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911 was a close friend of Charles Darwin. He was the first naturalist to travel into the Sikkim Himalaya, through mostly unknown territory which had not been reached by an

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