HUTCHINSON'S POPULAR BOTANY: THE LIVING PLANT FROM SEED TO FRUIT (2 VOLUMES)
Written by A.E. Knight, Edward Step
Published by Hutchinson & Co.
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- BOTANY
- LEATHER BINDING
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HUTCHINSON'S POPULAR BOTANY: THE LIVING PLANT FROM SEED TO FRUIT (2 VOLUMES)
Written by A.E. Knight, Edward Step.
Stock no. 1830607
Hardback.
Very good condition.
The Fascinating Story of the World's Plants Told in a Popular Manner. Three-quarter red leather bindings. Red cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Red speckled text block. Volume I with 351 b/w photos and illustrations plus 9 coloured plates. Volume II with 370 b/w illustrations and photos plus 9 coloured plates. Light rubbing to leather. A few marks to boards. Browning to edges of pastedowns. Small nibble to vertical edge of front endpaper. Hinges pulled with creasing to volume I. A few minor grubby margin marks. Insect damage to rear joint of both volumes. All colour plates present.
Front cover
Contents
- VOL. I
- Introduction
- I. The Protoplast
- II. The |Protoplast as House-Builder and House-Furnisher
- III. Cell Communities: A Chapter on Tissues
- IV. The Ascending Sap
- V. The Descending Sap
- VI. Seed and Root
- VII. Nature's Woodcraft: A Chapter on Stems
- VIII. Leaf-Beginnings and Leaf-Forms
- IX. The Leaf is Relation to its Environment
- VOL. II
- X. The Leaf in Relation to its Environment (continued)
- XI. Floral Forms and Their Relations to Insects
- XII. The Welcome of the Flowers
- XIII. Some Plant Marriages and the Guests that Assist at the Function
- XIV. The Promise of the Plant That is to Be
- XV. Hidden Marriages
- Glossary of Terms
- Index