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THE HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM, EMBRACING COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLANTS MOST INTERESTING FROM THEIR USES TO MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS; THEIR APPLICATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, MEDICINE, AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY; AND FROM THEIR BEAUTY OR PECULIARITIES; TOGETHER WITH THE PHYSIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS; Illustrated with Several Hundred Figures, Many of them Coloured
by Rhind, WIlliam
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Blackie and Son, 1868. Revised Edition, With Supplement. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo, 7 x 9.8 in., pp. xvi + 734. Illustrated with 43 steel engraved color and black and white plates including title, and numerous wood engravings; Two of the 45 steel-engraved plates (#5 and 36) are missing. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Linnaeus, with tissue guard. Dark half-calf over brown cloth boards. Gilt title with decoration to five raised bands to spine. Marbled edges. Rubbing to extremities. Several small chips to leather. Very light foxing to endpapers and occasional pages. Spine is tight. The steel and wood engravings in this edition are stunning: bright and sharp.
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85654
- Title
- THE HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM, EMBRACING COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLANTS MOST INTERESTING FROM THEIR USES TO MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS; THEIR APPLICATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, MEDICINE, AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY; AND FROM THEIR BEAUTY OR PECULIARITIES; TOGETHER WITH THE PHYSIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS; Illustrated with Several Hundred Figures, Many of them Coloured
- Author
- Rhind, WIlliam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition, With Supplement
- Publisher
- Blackie and Son
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Plant biology, plant taxonomy
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURAL HISTORY;
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- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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