The Poison Plants of Western Australia
Perth, Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, 1921 [first edition].
Large octavo, 59, [5] (blank) pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs).
Wrappers (with the full title page details repeated on the front) a little chipped, with minor infill at the rear and early paper tape reinforcement along the spine; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy.
Western Australia Department of Agriculture Bulletin Number 96. 'Up to the present no publication dealing with the whole of the known poison plants of Western Australia has been written. This Bulletin contains the collected accounts of various authors and correspondents which have been published at different times, and contains a large amount of original information gathered both from field experience and from laboratory experiments.... The illustrations are all original, and are from typical specimens' (preface).
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