Robert Dick. Baker, of Thurso Geologist and Botanist;
by Smiles, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Selkirk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Murray, 1878;. 1st Edition; HBk; xx, 436pp with a Portrait etched by Paul Rajon, and numerous Illustrations plus errata; Marbled endpapers with internal hinges repaired with heavy tape, back hinge cracked but firm. Heavy boards with gilt edge decoration ; Black old heavy tape on spine with makeshift paper label, internally very good. All edges gilt. The biography of a Scottish baker who became a self-educated naturalist and an authority on the geology and botany . .
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- Bookseller
- Wheen O'Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6569
- Title
- Robert Dick. Baker, of Thurso Geologist and Botanist;
- Author
- Smiles, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Murray, 1878;
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- Hinge
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- Cracked
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- Gilt
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