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The Useful Plants of Great Britain: A Treatise upon the Principal Native Vegetables Capable of Application as Food, Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures
by Johnson, C. Pierpoint
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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About This Item
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1862. recently rebacked copy with new endpapers and green buckram spine, surviving part of original spine glued on, attractive gilt-decorated front cover, rear board decorated in blind, 324 pages, all edges gilt, with 25 hand-coloured plates illustrating hundreds of species, some foxing and browning affecting foredge and occasionally at spine edges of text, but overall a clean sound copy. Book is undated, but other sellers mention 1862. Sowerby's Plate 2 is signed and dated August 1861.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Sowerby, John E.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Glenbower Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28504
- Title
- The Useful Plants of Great Britain: A Treatise upon the Principal Native Vegetables Capable of Application as Food, Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures
- Author
- Johnson, C. Pierpoint
- Illustrator
- Sowerby, John E.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Edition.
- Publisher
- Robert Hardwicke
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1862
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- BOTANY, PLANTS,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sciences and Technology; 19th Century Sciences;
Terms of Sale
Glenbower Books
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About the Seller
Glenbower Books
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Dublin, Dublin
About Glenbower Books
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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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.,...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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