Joseph Banks, A Life
by O'Brian, Patrick
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002173506
- ISBN 13
- 9780002173506
- Seller
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins Harvill, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in d/w that has some sunning to the spine. 328pp + plates. This now elusive first edition, written by the author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist, explorer, President of the Royal Society for more than forty years, a significant figure in scientific circles of the late eighteenth early nineteenth centuries. This masterly biography, which makes full use of Banks's letters and journals. .
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- Bookseller
- Rickaro Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 059573
- Title
- Joseph Banks, A Life
- Author
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002173506
- ISBN 13
- 9780002173506
- Publisher
- Collins Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- O'Brian Banks Biography Natural History Philosophy Aubrey Maturin
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