THE SPHAGNACEAE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
by Braithwaite, R., M.D., F.L.S., Etc
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Hardwicke & Bogue, 1878. 91 pages + 29 colored plates. First printing of the first book written by British physician and bryologist Robert Braithwaite In the original green cloth-covered boards: minor bump at lower edge of front cover, a hint of fraying at head & foot of spine, a bookplate on both front endpapers, and a few lines of marginalia in the margin of one page.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1206
- Title
- THE SPHAGNACEAE OR PEAT-MOSSES OF EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
- Author
- Braithwaite, R., M.D., F.L.S., Etc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hardwicke & Bogue
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- Flora, Natural History, Sphagnaceae. Peat-Mosses,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...