Peter S. Green, A Hawaiian Florilegium: Botanical Portraits from Paradise, 1996, HC, NF.

Green, Peter S. et al. Kauai: National Tropical Botanical Garden, 1996.

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 12 1/4" x 9 1/4", [IV] X, [1] 102 pp.

ISBN: 0915809206

Dark green cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block and endpapers. Near Fine plum pictorial dust jacket, featuring full-color botanical illustrations to front, back, and interior flaps, yellow and white lettering to front, back, and spine, black lettering to interior flaps, light shelf wear to front and back panels and wear to tips, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [IV] X, [1] 102 pp. replete with vibrant full-color botanical illustrations. Includes Foreword by William McK. Klein, Jr., PH.D., Introduction to the Flora of Hawaii, section "Hawaiian Natives" including Iliau and Hala Pepe, section "Endangered Endemics" including Uhiuhi and Koki'o 'Ula'ula, section "Polynesian Colonists" including Hau and Taro, section "Modern Transplants" including Jack Fruit and Banana Poka, Selected Readings, and Plant Index. From inside dust jacket: "The collection reflects the Hawaiian landscape seen by contemporary residents and visitors alike--with Polynesian and modern agricultural and ornamental plant immigrants now competing with the natives for attention and for space...Individually, Mary Grierson's beautiful watercolors will reward lovers of naturalistic paintings and of the plants themselves."