The Waterlilies A Monograph of the Genus Nymphaea

Washington, [D.C.]: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905. 4to. 30 plates (including 12 chromolithographs), 82 illustrations to text. xiii, [1], 279, [1] pp. Rebound in later half crimson morocco with remnant of printed wrappers mounted an bound-in; ffep heavily toned and foxed, faint dampstain to top portion of textblock through page 35, offsetting from previoulsy laid-in photograph (of the author as an infant?) on front blank Inscribed on the ffep, "To my beloved father & mother, in grateful recognition of untold obligations, from Henry S. Conrad." Conrad later reinscribed this volume, noting that the first inscription was made in 1905, "To my trusted pupil and friend Dr. Geneva Sayre from Henry S. Conrad Jan. 1945." Dr. Sayre (1911-1992) was a byologist and bibliographer; she studied botany under Conrad at Grinnell College. REFERENCE: Nissen, BBI 392 (Inventory #: 100547)