Bingley's Practical Introduction to Botany; illustrated by references under each definition to plants of easy access, and by numerous figures; comprising also a glossary of botanic terms
by Bingley, William; Frost, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1827. Second edition, with some account of the history of the science, and adapted to the use of students. Illustrated with a charming hand-coloured frontispiece, eight hand-coloured plates, small 12mo (measures 108mm x 173mm), extremely clean internally, contemporary boards with maroon calf spine, a little worn and scuffed and with a small piece missing from the calf. With the tiny book label of Piers Gascoigne of Bath. Very scarce, and an unusally attractive copy; the colouring is of a high standard. [Bingley was an English cleric and a prolific natural history writer. John Frost, the editor of this second edition, was a physician and botanist; he founded the short-lived Medico-Botanical Society of London in 1821. He was expelled from his own society nine years later for "unpopular, presumptuous conduct and displays of vanity". Several further ventures hit the rocks, and he eventually fled the country bankrupt, and later died penniless in Berlin.]. Second edition. Quarter leather. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020174
- Title
- Bingley's Practical Introduction to Botany; illustrated by references under each definition to plants of easy access, and by numerous figures; comprising also a glossary of botanic terms
- Author
- Bingley, William; Frost, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Baldwin, Cradock and Joy
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1827
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany; Victorian; Early works;
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Mike Park Ltd
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London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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- Spine
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- 12mo
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