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Sander's orchid guide containing all the best known species varieties and hybrids of orchids in cultivation. Their native countries descriptions seasons of flowering best methods of cultivation temperatures &c. together with the names and parentages of all the known hybrid orchids up to date January 1st 1901
by Frederick Conrad Sander
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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About This Item
St Albans: F. Sander & Co, 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition. pp330 + corrigenda page with tables throughout. Hardcover no dust jacket. Leather spine over black boards with gilt titles to spine and front board in good condition with some rubbing to edges of spine. Inside a little aging to free end papers, all other pages in very good clean condition with small stamp to title page. A very good copy of this scarce 1st edition by the Orchid King
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- Bookseller
- Nikki Green Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000834
- Title
- Sander's orchid guide containing all the best known species varieties and hybrids of orchids in cultivation. Their native countries descriptions seasons of flowering best methods of cultivation temperatures &c. together with the names and parentages of all the known hybrid orchids up to date January 1st 1901
- Author
- Frederick Conrad Sander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- F. Sander & Co
- Place of Publication
- St Albans
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- gardening / natural history / mum
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About the Seller
Nikki Green Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glasgow, Glasgow
About Nikki Green Books
Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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