Flora of the Principality of Serbia [the Wilmott / Alston / Radcliffe-Smith copy]
by Pancic, Josef (Panchic, Joseph)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Belgrade, 1874. [Serbian text throughout, with Latin plant names]. Small thick octavo, pp xxxiv, (ii), 798, (6), age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and firm, solidly bound in green cloth, with the original front paper cover restored and bound in. RARE.Pancic was a Croatian botanist and physician, eventually becoming Director of the Belgrade Botanic Garden. [ With a fine botanical provenance - the blindstamp of A.J. Wilmott, Kew botanist and ping-pong champion; from whom it went to Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston of the British Museum with his bequest label on the front endpaper; and finally back to Kew again to bear the signature of Alan Radcliffe-Smith.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018078
- Title
- Flora of the Principality of Serbia [the Wilmott / Alston / Radcliffe-Smith copy]
- Author
- Pancic, Josef (Panchic, Joseph)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Place of Publication
- Belgrade
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- croatia.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Floras;
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