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New York:, 1943: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing with A present. Travels throughout the Pacific islands the year before the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces. Plum colored cloth with silver stamped gilt titles. Decorated endpages with a relief map; xiv, 239 pages with an index; illustrated with numerous black/white photographs; Includes bibliographical references. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine has sun-fading. David Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. The junk had been built in Hong Kong especially for Fairchild's expedition it had a modern botanical laboratory below decks by an American explorer and scientific patron named Anne…
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Garden Islands of the Great East. Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk "Cheng Ho'
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Garden Islands of the great East : Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk "Chêng Ho".[We Journey into a World at War; Glimpses of Vanishing Japan; Zamboanga & Mindanao; Down the Coast of Celebes; Java; Bali; Batavia;
by Fairchild, David Grandison, 1869-1954. [map, Erwin Raisz, Thomas Barbour; photos, Edward "Ned" Beckwith]
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943., 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xiv pp., 1 leaf, 239 pp. ; frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 24 cm. ; LCCN: 43-15231 ; OCLC: 559007 ; LC: SB109 ; Dewey: 581.5 ; blue cloth with silver lettering ; slight knock, slight wear ; numerous photographs in black & white of rare tropical plants ; a scientific expedition in 1939 and 1940 which took author Fairchild on an air-conditioned Chinese junk, Cheng Ho, to Celebes, Bali, the Moluccas Islands ; VG.
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