Item #8255 Elam Bartholomew, Pioneer, Farmer, Botanist. Leonard Erle Muir.

Elam Bartholomew, Pioneer, Farmer, Botanist

Stockton, KS: Leonard Erle Muir, 1981. Very Good. Item #8255

Stockton, KS: Leonard Erle Muir, 1981. Stockton, KS: Self-published, 1981. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); [viii], 85p. Maps and photos throughout. Printed paper wraps. Light bumping to top front corner with some creasing along bottom edge and a small ink mark to front, but no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy.

Moving to Kansas to homestead in 1874, Bartholomew became a well-known and respected horticulturist and botanist. His work The Fungus Flora of Kansas, published in 1927, cataloged 1,829 species in Kansas, nearly quadrupling the 465 species previously identified. Upon his death in 1934, his 40,000 specimen herbarium was acquired by Harvard University.

Price: $35.00