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Manual of the Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand
by BUCHANAN, John
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Wellington: Printed at the Office of James Hughes, Lambton Quay (for the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department), 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wellington, Printed at the Office of James Hughes, Lambton Quay (for the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department), 1880. Large octavo, xviii, 175 pages plus 64 lithographs from drawings by the author (depicting 87 different species and varieties of grasses). Contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards with a contrasting leather title-label on the spine; covers a little rubbed at the extremities, with the paper sides a little scuffed; edges and early leaves a little foxed, with scattered light foxing elsewhere; small blank piece missing from the top corner of plate XLIII (with the corner later replaced with paper); minor signs of age and use (including three tiny chips to the leading edge of the last two plates); a very good copy. 'To insure accuracy of form, the specimens of the various grasses were lightly inked, and faintly impressed on the prepared surface of the lithographic stone, but the details were filled in by hand, together with enlarged drawings showing the anatomical characters of the inflorescence in each species from original microscopic disections [sic] made by Mr. Buchanan' (preface).
Provenance: Sir [John] Benjamin Stone (1838-1914, British photographer, politician and traveller), with his bookplate and private library label ('The Grange, Erdington') on the front pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138735
- Title
- Manual of the Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand
- Author
- BUCHANAN, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed at the Office of James Hughes, Lambton Quay (for the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department)
- Place of Publication
- Wellington
- Date Published
- 1880
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About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
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