Plant-Geography upon A Physiological Basis by AFW Schimper - 1903

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 2559 4to. Translated from the German by William R Fisher; revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfour. Quarter leather with gilt titles to spine, green cloth-covered boards, top edges gilt, four folding maps to rear, 824 pages. -xxx Prefaces, Appreciation of the Author (by Percy Groom), Contents etc., then pp 1-824, then maps, then Index to 839. Many full-page illustrations, from photographs and drawings (monochrome); some not bound as listed. Approximately 9.5" by 6.5". Condition notes: Fore-edges soiled (uncut, ie untrimmed), some rubbing to the joints and extremities, age-darkening to the end papers, which are worn at the hinges.