The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants Cultivated in Great Britain; with Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations. - Vol. IV
de Maund, Benjamin
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good++
- Librería
-
Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London, UK: Simpkin and Marshall / Sherwood and Co.. Half bound in tan leather over marbled boards with raised bands to decorative spine and gilt title to leather label. 1831-32. Unpaginated. 21 hand-coloured plates, each showing 4 different plants per plate. Boards are shelf worn and rubbed with small tears to the spine and partial loss to the title label. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown plus a small library label. Some foxing and tanning to many pages but the binding is tight and the hand-coloured plates are bright and clear. A lovely book. . Good++. Hardcover. 1832.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Broad Street Book Centre
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 111440
- Título
- The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants Cultivated in Great Britain; with Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations. - Vol. IV
- Autor
- Maund, Benjamin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good++
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Simpkin and Marshall / Sherwood and Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- London, UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 1832
- Tamaño
- 225mm x 185mm.
- Palabras clave
- botany ornamental flowering plants botanic art unit five
Términos de venta
Broad Street Book Centre
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Sobre el vendedor
Broad Street Book Centre
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Hay-on-Wye, Powys
Sobre Broad Street Book Centre
Our bookshop is situated in the world famous book-town of Hay-on-Wye and hosts 20 individual booksellers covering the broadest possible range of books with everything from antiquarian to zoology
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- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Marbled boards
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
