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Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books
by Sitwell, Sacheverell; Blunt, Wilfrid
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 085493202X
- ISBN 13
- 9780854932023
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1990 4to (30.5 cm), XI, 189 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The most comprehensive illustrated guide to collectible colorplate flower books ever published. Originally published in 1956 in a limited edition the book is a celebration of the world's greatest natural history monographs, of the artists and craftsmen, entrepreneurs and patrons who created brilliant florilegium of the 18th and 19th centuries. Listing more than 750 books "Great Flower Books" is indispensable guide for collectors and dealers and a proven standard by which old colorplate books are judged. This edition includes a foreword by S. Dillon Ripley of the Smithsonian Institution and an introduction by Handasyde Buchanan and his Appendix explaining printing techniques.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
(PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005392
- Title
- Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books
- Author
- Sitwell, Sacheverell; Blunt, Wilfrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 085493202X
- ISBN 13
- 9780854932023
- Publisher
- H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Natural history;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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