Great natural history books and their creators
by Desmond, Ray
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0712347747
- ISBN 13
- 9780712347747
- Seller
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Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Ambitiously conceived and grandly executed natural history books, with their sumptuous large-format illustrations, are now some of the most expensive antiquarian collectors' items. This book attempts to put them in context; though the last chapter (on 'clerics as authors') does sit rather uncomfortably alongide treatments of Temple of Flora, Birds of America and Flora Graeca. Printed on high quality heavyweight paper, this book's 176 pages are crammed with interesting insights. In the words of one of the chapter headings, 'a curious tale'.
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- Bookseller
- Acanthophyllum Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7259
- Title
- Great natural history books and their creators
- Author
- Desmond, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hard covers, dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0712347747
- ISBN 13
- 9780712347747
- Publisher
- The British Library / Oak Knoll Press
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 2003
- LCCN
- 2002030716
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography;
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Acanthophyllum Books
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Holywell, Flintshire
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