Search Results: A Traveller's Notes, or Notes Of a Tour Through … by James Herbert Veitch

Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation, 1896. With signed presentation inscription to J. Hollingsworth (head gardener at Tredegar Park followed by Margam Park]. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece (with, as usual, tears and creases at the upper join, now neatly repaired), nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs, quarto, pp 219, slight age-toning and marking, some inner joints rather cracked and weak, the last third of the book has rather damp-wrinkled pages, with light staining on the last few pages, original decorated cloth with paper inlay, bevelled edges, a bit rubbed and marked, the spine dull and age-toned andpulled at the head and tail, the upper cover slightly unevenly age-toned. [In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments, to decide whether the Veitch… Read More

Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation, 1896. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece (with, as usual, a slight tear at the upper join), nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs, quarto, pp 219, slight age-toning and marking, a little foxing on the last few pages, slight marking along the top of the title page, original decorated cloth with paper inlay, bevelled edges, a bit rubbed and marked, the spine dull and age-toned, the upper cover unevenly age-toned, recently re-cased with new endpapers. [In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments, to endeavour whether the Veitch gardens and nurseries might be enriched by further additions. He set off by way of Rome and Naples to Ceylon, thence overland from Tuticorin to Lahore. He continued to Calcutta and on to the Straits… Read More