A flora of the North East of Ireland
by Stewart, Samuel Alexander & Corry, Thomas Hughes
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- Hardcover
- first
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition. Belfast Naturalists Field Club. Belfast. Macmillan and Bowes. Cambridge. 1888. xxxiii, (2), 331pp. Original decorative cloth, gilt lettering and motif of Rosa Hibernica to the upper board. Slight wear to corners. Ownership signatures of Mortimer and Robson, Woodside, Helen's Bay, to ffep.
Published after the tragic death of Thomas Hughes Corry age 23, drowned on Lough Gill in 1883 while carrying out a botanical exploration. The details are outlined in the preface by Samuel Stewart.
(One of a number of floras currently being catalogued originating from the private library of Quentin Oliver Newton Kay)
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- Bookseller
- Paul Haynes Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio794
- Title
- A flora of the North East of Ireland
- Author
- Stewart, Samuel Alexander & Corry, Thomas Hughes
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Belfast Naturalists Field Club
- Place of Publication
- Belfast
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Flora, Botany, Plant Hunting, Ireland, Northern Ireland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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