THE FAMILIES OF PLANTS Volume I.
by Linneus
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- Good/No dust jacket
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About This Item
Lichfield: John Jackson (Botanical Society at Lichfield), 1787. First English printing. Hardbound Buckram. Good/No dust jacket. 8vol. 386pp. Rebound in Hardcover brown buckram with gold titles on spine. .Foretitlepage, titlepage, dedication-page; lxxx page including a 38-p. 'Accented Catalogue of the Generic and Trivial Names of Plants used by Linneus Ownership signature of William Gibbons on top of foretitlepage. William Gibbons was an American lawyer and revolutionary from Georgia. He was a member of the colonial assembly 1760-62 and joined the Sons of Liberty in 1774 and in 1775 was part of the group who broke into King's ammunition storage in Savannah and removed 600 pounds of his powder. Among other associations, he was a member of the Continental Congress in 1784.
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- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21790
- Title
- THE FAMILIES OF PLANTS Volume I.
- Author
- Linneus
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound Buckram
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English printing
- Publisher
- John Jackson (Botanical Society at Lichfield)
- Place of Publication
- Lichfield
- Date Published
- 1787
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- Natural History;
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...