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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

New.

hansebooks, 2018. Paperback. New. 644 pages. 8.50x6.56x1.46 inches.

hansebooks, 2018. Paperback. New. 736 pages. 8.50x6.56x1.66 inches.

John Richardson, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume two (of two) only. Blue/green cloth with gilt titling, additional titles and decoration in black. Cloth toned to spine with light age-soil, and lightly edgeworn with tiny points of fraying to fore-edge corners. Spine tilted forward. Binding sound. Foxed to textblock edges, and faint remnants of erased pencil markings at front endpapers. Pages else clean, text free of markings.

London: John Richardson & Co., , 1890. The Rich History of a Culinary Delicacy PHILPOTS, John R. Oysters, and all about them. A complete history of the titular subject, exhaustive on all points of necessary ad curious inforatios from the Earliest Writers to those of the Present Time, with numerous additions, facts, and notes, by John R. Philpots. London: John Richardson & Co., 1890. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 120 mm.). [2], [1]-642; [2], [643]-1370 pp. Text complete but endpapers are very brittle & worn. Occasional blind stamp of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Publisher's green cloth, front covers decorated in black and lettered in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Helen & Grant Dahlstrom on front paste-downs. Spines ends very worn gilt lettering on spines very dull. A good working copy. A study of worldwide oyster culture. Oysters have a rich history as a culinary delicacy and have been enjoyed by various cultures throughout the… Read More