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Food Plants of the North American Indians 1936 E. Yanovsky Ethnobotany Reprint

$ 10.56

  • Author: Yanovsky, Elias & U. S. Dept. Of Agriculture & Roger Chambers
  • Binding: Stapled wraps
  • Book Condition: Very Good
  • Book Series: Miscellaneous Publications, No. 237
  • Book Title: Food Plants of the North American Indians
  • Cover: Stapled wraps
  • Defects: Facsimile reprint. This is a trade paperback booklet with, cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very, Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a, strip of sunning to the top rear cover of the book. The text, pages are clean and bright. The print on this booklet is really, small. There is an inked previous owner's name on the front, inside cover. This publication lists "all of the food plants, that appeared in Ethnobotanical publications during a period of, nearly 80 years." (From the booklet introduction) The list was, compiled when the Carbohydrate Division of the Bureau of, Chemistry systematically investigated the amount of, carbohydrates in plants - one of the scientists suggested, attention be given to "plants used for food by the North, American Indians." this booklet results from those, investigations.
  • Edition: Facsimile reprint
  • Format: Stapled wraps
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 83p.
  • Place Published: Washington, D. C.
  • Place of Publication: Washington, D. C.
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Publisher: U . S. Department of Agriculture
  • Subject: Native Americans
  • Topic: Native Americans
  • Year Printed: 2017

Description

Very good condition- re-print of 1936 publication - there is no date - probably from 1950s Trade paperback