Choice Stove And Greenhouse Flowering Plants, Comprising Descriptions Of Upwards Of Eleven Hundred Species And Varieties... Accompanied by Instructions for Their Cultivation and Mode of Management
by Williams, Benjamin Samuel
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: The Author. Fair. 1873. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Lacks spine, front board detached, one folding plate broken at a fold. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Cloth, viii, 346p., illustrated, some folding, ads. **With color frontispiece of Anthurium Scherzerianum. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18591
- Title
- Choice Stove And Greenhouse Flowering Plants, Comprising Descriptions Of Upwards Of Eleven Hundred Species And Varieties... Accompanied by Instructions for Their Cultivation and Mode of Management
- Author
- Williams, Benjamin Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Second Revised Edition
- Publisher
- The Author
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- Color Plate, Greenhouse, Horticulture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horticulture;
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
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- Fair
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