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LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles. by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::

by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::

LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles. by JAUFFRET L.F. and  [MIGER (P.A.M.)  THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::

LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles.

by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::

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Paris, chez Perlet, 1807.. FIRST EDTIONS, 2 WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME, 1807. LE PANIER DE FRUITS, ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France; suivies de differens morceaux de litterature et de morale; ouvrage orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees; destine aux jeunes gens. FIRST EDITION, 1807, French text, 24 fine plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after the Pretres, pages: viii, 384; LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS: FIRST EDITION 1807 with coloured plates after Pretre, French text, 8vo, approximately 205 x 115 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 12 folding leaves of engraved music, 24 fine plates printed in colours and finished by hand, after drawings by J.G. PRETRE and his daughter Mlle Josephine Pretre, pages: viii, 384. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, narrow gilt floral border to covers, gilt decoration to spine, 2 gilt lettered red morocco labels, edges and endpapers marbled. A few hair-line surface cracks to spine, small bump to upper corner of lower cover, small oval ink stamp removed from blank area of first title page, now neatly patched, a total of 8 further ink stamps of E. Tessier throughout the 2 works, not affecting text or images, mostly to lower blank margins, large blank piece torn off lower corner of page 77/78 (first work) now neatly repaired, no loss to text, pale brown stain to lower margin of pages 267-270 (first work), lower blank margin torn off final page of second work now neatly repaired, no loss to text, very good clean copies. This is the Plesch copy with the gilt red leather bookplate of the collection of Arpad Plesch on the front pastedown. SEE: Sotheby's Catalogue of The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Collected by Arpad Plesch, Part 2, page 183, No. 532; Gordon Dunthorne, Flower and Fruit Prints, 18th & 19th centuries, Catalogue Raisonne, page 172, Numbers 15 & 16; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, No. 45, pages 122-124. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of...
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Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr

by Arents, George. Ed. Jerome Brooks

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Rosenbach Company, New York, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. #230/300 copies. The five volume set in brown paper djs plus the ten supplements in wraps. 15-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54. . This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.

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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open. Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's… Read More
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account...
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of All the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean System.

by Thomas Green

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Liverpool: Henry Fisher , 1820 A very good 2 volume set of the 1st edition, newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards. With 2 decorative frontispieces, 1 decorative title, and 106 hand coloured plates. The title pages are undated but Vol I has a preface dated 1820 and the 1st edition was produced between 1816 and 1820. This copy is in new half calf with gilt lines title labels and volume numbers to spines. The marbled paper matches the marbling on the page edges. New endpapers. All the plates are in very good clean condition and are well coloured. The paper quality varies with the paper in the first half of Vol II being noticeably toned and prone to light spotting. Contents - Vol I: frontispiece; decorative title; title; preface 2 pp; introduction, instructions on finding a plant, and text (to letters KYL) with 56 plates pp 1-790. There are a couple of ink corrections in the margins of pp 304-5 and 627. Paper lightly toned with light spotting circa p 700. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text pp… Read More
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Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse
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Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse: wie auch solcher, welche mit ihnen verwechselt werden können.

by Friedrich Gottlob Hayne

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Volume 5 only of this 13-volume set of one of the finest German works on medical botany.Complete with 48 finely hand-coloured copperplate engravings of plants by the famous German botanical artist Friedrich Guimpel.Plants include peony, horseradish, figwort, meadow saffron, broadleaf plantain, annual mercury, sedge, fumitory, fumewort, celandine, buckthorn, vervain, dead-nettle, lichens, and more.Title page, preface, 96 pages of explanatory text, and 48 plates on watermarked laid paper mounted and folded against protective pages, with original blue wraps (dated 1816-1818) bound in at rear. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, taxonomist, pharmacist and professor. Beginning as a pharmacist in Berlin from 1778 to 1796, he worked as an assistant for the Royal Prussian Chemical Factory for several years before teaching pharmaceutical botany at the University of Berlin from 1811 until his death. Getreue Darstellung is his masterpiece, published over 30 years from 1805 to his death,… Read More
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CHARACTERS OF GENERA, EXTRACTED FROM THE BRITISH FLORA of W.J. HOOKER.
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by GRAHAM, Robert (1786-1845). W.J. Hooker.:

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Edinburgh, John Carfrae & Son, Longman, Rees, Orme Brown & Green,1830.. FIRST EDITION 1830. Slim 8vo, approximately 215 x 125 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 64 pages, bound in half pebbled cloth over paper boards, new cream endpapers. Pale stain to top of upper cover, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce work.1 copy only listed in Library Hub Discover, at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of...
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Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr

by Arents, George. Ed. Jerome Brooks

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Rosenbach Company, New York, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. #230/300 copies. The five volume set in brown paper djs plus the ten supplements in wraps. 15-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54. . This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.
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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open. Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's… Read More
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account...
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of All the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean System.

by Thomas Green

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Liverpool: Henry Fisher , 1820 A very good 2 volume set of the 1st edition, newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards. With 2 decorative frontispieces, 1 decorative title, and 106 hand coloured plates. The title pages are undated but Vol I has a preface dated 1820 and the 1st edition was produced between 1816 and 1820. This copy is in new half calf with gilt lines title labels and volume numbers to spines. The marbled paper matches the marbling on the page edges. New endpapers. All the plates are in very good clean condition and are well coloured. The paper quality varies with the paper in the first half of Vol II being noticeably toned and prone to light spotting. Contents - Vol I: frontispiece; decorative title; title; preface 2 pp; introduction, instructions on finding a plant, and text (to letters KYL) with 56 plates pp 1-790. There are a couple of ink corrections in the margins of pp 304-5 and 627. Paper lightly toned with light spotting circa p 700. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text pp… Read More
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Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse
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Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse: wie auch solcher, welche mit ihnen verwechselt werden können.

by Friedrich Gottlob Hayne

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Volume 5 only of this 13-volume set of one of the finest German works on medical botany.Complete with 48 finely hand-coloured copperplate engravings of plants by the famous German botanical artist Friedrich Guimpel.Plants include peony, horseradish, figwort, meadow saffron, broadleaf plantain, annual mercury, sedge, fumitory, fumewort, celandine, buckthorn, vervain, dead-nettle, lichens, and more.Title page, preface, 96 pages of explanatory text, and 48 plates on watermarked laid paper mounted and folded against protective pages, with original blue wraps (dated 1816-1818) bound in at rear. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, taxonomist, pharmacist and professor. Beginning as a pharmacist in Berlin from 1778 to 1796, he worked as an assistant for the Royal Prussian Chemical Factory for several years before teaching pharmaceutical botany at the University of Berlin from 1811 until his death. Getreue Darstellung is his masterpiece, published over 30 years from 1805 to his death,… Read More
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CHARACTERS OF GENERA, EXTRACTED FROM THE BRITISH FLORA of W.J. HOOKER.
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by GRAHAM, Robert (1786-1845). W.J. Hooker.:

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Edinburgh, John Carfrae & Son, Longman, Rees, Orme Brown & Green,1830.. FIRST EDITION 1830. Slim 8vo, approximately 215 x 125 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 64 pages, bound in half pebbled cloth over paper boards, new cream endpapers. Pale stain to top of upper cover, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce work.1 copy only listed in Library Hub Discover, at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide

by Allan Seiden

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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California

Mushrooms of Northern California

by Biek, David

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Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I

by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)

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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art

by Dr. Lardner

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A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms:  Both Native  and Introduced, Found...

A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region

by Jesup, Henry G

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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I

Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I

by Y.P.S. Bajaj (editor)

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Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, 1986. Usual library marks. 515 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones...

CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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HELVELLA MITZA [Elfin Saddle Mushroom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 556) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum

by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard

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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten...
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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten [provenance: Wilhelm Nahlop, head gardener of Schloss Britz]

by Stein, Berthold

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Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.
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Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

Poisonous Plants and Related Toxins

by Stewart, C. S.; Acamovic, T.; Pennycott, T. W

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Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing, 2004. Illustrated laminated boards. Usual library marks. 586 pages. Presents refereed and edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants, held in Scotland in August 2001. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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