Scarce in the jacket. First edition, first impression and scarce in the dust jacket.

To Persia for Flowers is the chronicle of a 1935 trip made by two British women, Alice Fullerton and Nancy Lindsay, to what was then Persia and is now Iran, to collect flowers for the British museum. Nature reported in 1936 that the expedition resulted in the Department of Botany receiving 430 plants,' principally from the Elburz [Alborz] Mountains, an area which has been little worked. The collection is accompanied by useful notes and by a number of excellent water-colour paintings of the more attractive plants by Miss Lindsay'.

First edition; 8vo; 6 double-sided plates from photographs, spotting to the edges of the text block and occasionally the contents; original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt on black ground, spine rolled, a very good copy in the jacket that is rubbed and toned with some spots, a few short splits, and a little creasing at the edges; 195pp.