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A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION
A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION

A NATURALIST IN WESTERN CHINA BY ERNEST HENRY WILSON 1913 SIGNED FIRST EDITION

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[WILSON, ERNEST HENRY]. A Naturalist in Western China With Vasculum, Camera, and Gun; Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913.

FIRST U.S. EDITION. Signed by the author; complete in two volumes; octavo (23 x 14.5 cm); pp. xxxvii, 251; xi, 229. English text, with 101 full-page illustrations and a map. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth gilt; unevenly cut fore- and bottom edges; half-titles; frontispieces; rear index in double columns; folding colour map of Western Hupeh & Szechuan. Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh. Signed by the author to the portrait frontispiece in volume one: "E.H. Wilson, Dec. 31, 1913". Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Covers well-preserved with some trivial bumping to spine ends. Interiors with some light scattered foxing, the page edges a little spotted. Scarce thus.

Notes: The naturalist Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930) spent much of his career in China, where he collected seeds and plant samples. In this work, Wilson describes how the Chinese utilise their plants in medicine and agriculture. Born in the Cotswold village of Chipping Camden, Ernest Wilson developed a passion for plants at a very young age. At sixteen, he became an apprentice gardener's boy at a local nursery in Solihull and later moved to the Birmingham Botanic Gardens. In 1897, he began working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he won the Hooker Prize for an essay on the order Coniferae. Although he considered becoming a teacher of botany, he was offered a position with James Veitch & Sons as their plant collector in China. Throughout his career, he collected thirty-five Wardian cases full of tubers, corms, bulbs, and rhizomes, as well as dried herbarium specimens representing over 906 plant species and the seeds of more than 300 plant species. Wilson became Director of the Arnold Arboretum after his Exploration Work and wrote several important books on plants and his explorations. He died along with his Wife In A tragic automobile accident in 1930. This is an extremely rare signed copy of an important work.

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