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Plant Hunters in the Andes by Goodspeed, T. Harper
Description
Berkeley: : University of California Press, , 1961. 8vo,. Illustrated. cloth and dustjacket, fading and tears to jacket, else very good. The narrative of six botanical expeditions in South America.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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