CLARKE, Philip A.

Aboriginal Plant Collectors. Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century

Kenthurst, Rosenberg, 2008.

Quarto, 191 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour).

Papered boards; ownership details in pencil on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.

'This book explores the impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants, spanning the period from the expansion of world exploration in the seventeenth century to the beginning of systematic scientific studies in the late nineteenth century' (dustwrapper blurb).

Item #137016

Price (AUD): $150.00
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