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NATURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH GRASSES - 62 DRIED GRASS SPECIMEN PLATES
by Hanham, Frederick
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bath, London: Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co., 1846. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to (31x 42cm). pp xx 130. 62 specimens of dried British grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Bound in publisher's blue moire silk, elaborate gilt detail once to spine, now showing much of the backstrip, silk mainly missing, gilt vignette to the front panel remains intact, bound by Astle and Sons. The contents is complete with specimens in good order (only the first plate has a missing part of the specimen) minimal marks and spots to just a few plates only.[please see images]. Very little internal marking, endpapers clean, first and last blanks with some foxing, all other pages bright. Half title bears a name and date of 1847. This rare item is valued at a sensible price given the condition of the binding, but internally very good..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032571
- Title
- NATURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH GRASSES - 62 DRIED GRASS SPECIMEN PLATES
- Author
- Hanham, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Binns and Goodwin, Whittaker & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Bath, London
- Date Published
- 1846
- Size
- 4to (31x 42cm)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany; Herbariums;
Terms of Sale
Loe Books
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Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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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....
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
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