Hooker's Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1864/1867 – Reeve & Co London.

A genuinely rare and historically important piece of New Zealand natural history — the complete first edition of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, published in two parts by Reeve & Co., London.

Publication Details -Handbook of the New Zealand Flora by J.D. Hooker M.D., F.R.S. Part I (pp. 1–392) published 1864, Part II (pp. 393 to end) published 1867 -Published by Reeve & Co., 5 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London -Published under the authority of the Government of New Zealand Dedicated to Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, from Royal Gardens, Kew, July 1864 -Both parts bound in a single volume — no other complete single-volume copy appears to be currently available anywhere online

-Several page sections uncut at the top — never opened

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