Flowers of the World in Full Color. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Flowers of the World in Full Color

Condition: Very Good Hardcover. No dust jacket. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-10751 The illustrated cloth boards are clean and bright with light shelf wear, gentle rubbing at the extremities, and minor bumping to the corners and spine ends. The binding is sound. The pages are complete and securely attached. Light age toning is present. There is a gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1958. The text is clean with no writing or highlighting observed. The book contains numerous full-color photographic illustrations throughout. Listing photos show the exact copy included in this sale. This illustrated botanical reference surveys flowering plants from many regions of the world, combining color photography with descriptive information useful for plant identification and comparison. Subjects include ornamental garden flowers, wildflowers, tropical and temperate species, botanical classification, plant characteristics, geographic distribution, and horticultural interest. The volume serves as both a mid-twentieth-century botanical reference and a visual record of flowering plants popular with gardeners, nature enthusiasts, florists, botanical illustrators, landscape designers, and collectors of vintage natural history books. Its extensive color photography also reflects the development of postwar illustrated reference publishing and makes it useful to readers interested in botanical imagery as well as plant identification.…