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GB & India: Smith Elder, 1855. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. EX LIBRARY BOOK WITH SOME LIBRARY MARKINGS, top 2cm of title page has been clipped (possibly to remove inscription.. 1st Edition. Hardback. G++/No DW.

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London: Smith Elder & Co, 1855. Blind-stamped decorated and gilt-titled original boards. A few ex-libris blindstamps ("Presented to the Educational Museum"); fore-edges lightly soiled/foxed; overall Near Fine- and very tight.. Octavo in original in blind-stamped decorated and gilt-titled orange-brown boards. blind-stamped boards and spine 400+ p, index, illustrations. A desirable copy. UNOPENED // Agriculture, Economy, Paper, Fibers.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1855. First Edition. Includes a chapter on hemp (cannabis sativa), about which the author writes, "The Hemp plant likewise secretes a resinous principle in its leaves, on which account these, as well as the churrus collected from off the young tops of the stem and flowers, is highly esteemed in Eastern countries, on account of its exhilarating and intoxicating powers." xiv, 403 pages, plus ads. First edition (first printing). Original blindstamped publisher's gold cloth. Hinges cracked; some foxing to pages; pencilled notes on a few pages and twelve lines of pencilled notes on the final page. With one leaf of undated ads and 16 pages of publisher's books, dated March 1855. Bookstore label of J. Higginbotham of Madras on front pastedown.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xiv, 404 pages of text including an index and errata. Full leather binding with moderate rubbing to the extremities; hinges weakened but remain attached and functional; spine was rebacked decades ago. Small stamp on title page, and previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly to front pastedown endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers..

LONDON, SMITH,ELDER, AND CO., 1885.. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION COPY. - BLUE BOARDS. AN ACCOUNT OF THE CULTIVATION AND PREPARATION OF FLAX, HEMP, AND THEIR SUBSTITUTE FITTED FOR CORDAGE, CLOTHING AND PAPER.

London:: Smith, Elder, and Co.,, 1855.. publisher's cloth.. Old blue circular library stamp at corner of title page and one text page; accession number on title and pastedown; some scattered very light foxing; weak at hinges with overall light soiling and use to cloth. . 8vo,.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's cloth, covers somewhat soiled, hinges loose; very minor foxing. First edition of Royle's valuable work on the fibrous plants of India, especially his study of hemp Royle (1799-1858) was a British botanist and teacher of materia medica. He was an assistant surgeon at the East India Company and devoted himself to studying botany and geology. Later he was professor of materia medica in Kings College, London. He was also distinguished in the field of Economic, and his chief contribution to the latter having been a folio volume entitled Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya Mountains. Of interest is his correspondence with Charles Darwin.