THE ADVANCE OF THE FUNGI
by E.C. Large
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st. 1940
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. This book reviews the successive epidemics of fungal and other plant disease which have swept the crops of the modern world, and traces the growth of the science of crop-defence, or plant-protection, from its beginnings in the eighteenth century until today (1940s). Includes the Potato Blight, from the famine in Ireland onwards, the Leaf-Disease in Ceylon, the Black Stem Rust in North America which so gravely reduced the suppies of grain available for the Allies in 1916. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 488 pages including index.
Light rubbing to board edges. Text block browned. A few foxspots present, mainly to endpapers and prelims. Dustwrapper is chipped to corners and top & tail of spine, browned with some staining to spine, a few small foxspots and general grubbiness.
Stock no. 1831570
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- BOTANY
- FUNGI
