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Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
by Earle, Alice Morse
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/No dj
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1902 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth with dark green & white decorations and gilt titles on front board and spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, pink silk ribbon bookmark, [2], xxiii, 461 pp, 44 ff plates not in pagination, numerous other illustrations, index. Front board faintly water-spotted, white roses on spine faded, spine ends rubbed, ends of ribbon faded & detached from spine, gilt titles & top edge still bright and attractive. Most of the book is about sundials, with a few chapters on the lore of roses, especially as they both appear in and around English and American gardens. Contents: the charm & sentiment of sundials; noon-marks, spot-dials, window-dials; classification of sun-dials; construction of sun-dials; ingeniose diallers; portable dials; the sun-dial as an emblem; symbolic designs for sun-dials; pedestals & gnomons; the setting of sun-dials; sun-dial mottoes; the sun-dial as a memorial; Pliny saith: concerning roses & garlands; rosa solis, rose plate, and rosee; the emblem of the rose in English history; our grandmothers' roses; Rosicrucians; the sun-dial of Ahaz; rural saints & prophets; a story of four dials. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 20 X 15 cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NAGA00009
- Title
- Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday
- Author
- Earle, Alice Morse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Weight
- 4.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nature Gardening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plants & Animals;
- Size
- 20 X 15 cm
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About the Seller
Twin City Antiquarian Books
Biblio member since 2005
Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Twin City Antiquarian Books
We are mail-order sellers of used and out-of-print books, selling on the Web since 2000.
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