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Manuel De Botanique a L'usage Des Amateurs et Des Voyageurs
by Lebreton, M.F
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Prault, 1787. xxiv, 388pp, [4]. Ex-library (Horticultural Society of New York), with their bookplate to ffep (no stamps or stickers). Half-calf and boards, smooth spine divided into five panels by gilt double rules, later reback, original title label laid on. Slightly rubbed to extremities, corners worn. Internally some light browning, but generally clean. Eight folding plates (one browned, one torn along two folds). Includes early advice on exporting plants. French text. Pritzel 5115. First Edition. Half Calf and Boards. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Zetetic Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 000130
- Title
- Manuel De Botanique a L'usage Des Amateurs et Des Voyageurs
- Author
- Lebreton, M.F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prault
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1787
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Botanics, Natural History, Ebay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Eighteenth Century; Natural History;
- Size
- 8vo
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