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NATURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH GRASSES - 62 DRIED GRASS SPECIMEN PLATES
de Hanham, Frederick
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
-
Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Bath, London: Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co., 1846. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (31x 42cm). pp xx 130. 62 specimens of dried British grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Bound in publisher's red leather, a little irregular edge wear, elaborate gilt detail to spine and boards, gilt vignette to the front panel, bound by Astle and Sons. The contents is complete with specimens in good order, no foxing, endpapers clean. Hanham's states in his preface"Dried specimens of plants, when preserved with care as to their natural appearance and character, must always be more interesting and valuable to a Botanist, or a lover of Nature, than engravings; being the real or original object, which drawings are intended only to portray... there is much... that the pencil can never show"..
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- Librería
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 035725
- Título
- NATURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH GRASSES - 62 DRIED GRASS SPECIMEN PLATES
- Autor
- Hanham, Frederick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- Bath, London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1846
- Tamaño
- 4to (31x 42cm)
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Botany; Featured Books; Herbariums;
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Vignette
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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