American Medical Botany, Being A Collection Of The Native Medicinal Plants Of The United States, ... Vol. III , Parts I & II [only]
by Bigelow, Jacob
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Cooperstown, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard. Fair. 1820. Hardcover. Front cover is loosely attached by binding thread. Covers have scraping and rubbing, with surface loss to the rear upper outer corner especially. Front and rear blanks have damp staining, diminishes quickly to wrinkling on adjacent leaves. First few leaves and last few leaves are foxed. Plates and adjacent pages have varying amounts of browning. Bookplate has been removed from front endpaper. Incidentally, there is a misspelling on the spine label, it reads Bigelow's Medical Totany. ; Volume Three, Parts One & Two, only. Twenty color plates. Full leather covers. .
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- Bookseller
- Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 357433
- Title
- American Medical Botany, Being A Collection Of The Native Medicinal Plants Of The United States, ... Vol. III , Parts I & II [only]
- Author
- Bigelow, Jacob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Cummings and Hilliard
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1820
- Keywords
- Medical, Medicine, Botany, Plants, Medical Botany, Medicines, Cures, Remedies
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Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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Cooperstown, New York
About Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
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