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Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet, Several of Which Have Never Before Been Published. Illustrated With Plates. Volume II Part I - Poetry and Natural History
by Stillingfleet, Benjamin
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1811. Large octavo, pp viii, 304, very clean internally, full tree calf (probalbly conyemporary), rather worn, joints cracking, front hinge cracked and weak, marbeld endpapers. [Comprises poetry, followed by "Discourse Concerning the irritability of Flowers", with one engraved plate; "Swedish Pan"; "Observations on the Grasses" with 17 hand-coloured plates of grasses (with one bis plate and two plates which are numbered 16)]. . First Edition thus. Full Leather. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020917
- Title
- Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet, Several of Which Have Never Before Been Published. Illustrated With Plates. Volume II Part I - Poetry and Natural History
- Author
- Stillingfleet, Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Publisher
- Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1811
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany; Agriculture; Grasses; Early works;
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Mike Park Ltd
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London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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