A Popular California Flora, or, Manuale of Botany for Beginners. Containing Descriptions of Flowering Plants Growing in Central California, and Westward to the Ocean, with Introductory Lessons
by Rattan, Volney
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1880. Here is a cute, and informative, treatise intended as a course-book for secondary schools. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the Second Edition, "Revised and Enlarged" (First Edition Thus). Orange cloth binding, ruled and titled in black. Clean text; xviii, 138 pages; index, glossary, addenda. Many black-and-white illustrations. Contemporary (1881) signatures on both front paste-down and the Front Free Endpaper. Mildly bumped and rubbed at the margins; stain on the rear panel. Without these minor defects, close to a Fine copy.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004485
- Title
- A Popular California Flora, or, Manuale of Botany for Beginners. Containing Descriptions of Flowering Plants Growing in Central California, and Westward to the Ocean, with Introductory Lessons
- Author
- Rattan, Volney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- A.L. Bancroft and Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Fine
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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