Flora: seu de Florum Cultura or a Complete Florilege furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist
by Rea, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Anacortes, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: George Marriott, 1676. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 2nd corrected impression in 3 books (Flora, Ceres, Pomona - all bound together). London 1676. Folio. 231 pages with 8 engraved plates. Small wormholes in margins. Damp-staining to lower edges. Rebacked with original spine laid on. Wilfrid Blunt's copy ("Wilfrid Blunt, May 1948 Eton"), later (in 1985) given to Ray Desmond with best wishes by Blunt. ' The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century'-Henrey, page 195. Hundreds of flowering plants and fruit trees are described, with instructions on how to construct a garden.
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- Bookseller
- Calendula Horticultural Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4626
- Title
- Flora: seu de Florum Cultura or a Complete Florilege furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist
- Author
- Rea, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- George Marriott
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1676
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Keywords
- Wilfrid Blunt
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany; Flora;
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Calendula Horticultural Books
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Anacortes, Washington
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- Folio
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