Carpe Diem Fine Books

Cone-Bearing Trees of the California Mountains

Chase, J. Smeaton

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1911. First Edition. 12mo. 99 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs; line drawings by Carl Eytel. Pictorial cloth in near fine condition (minor wear; newsclipping about ancient redwood trees tipped). Item #21386

J. Smeaton Chase (1864 – 1923) was an English-born American author, traveler and photographer. Here is his book not "by a botanist for botanists...but by a tree-lover for tree-lovers...and aims simply at enabling any one going into our California mountains to distinguish the pines, firs, and other conferous trees he may meet." - Introduction.

Price: $150.00