Emily Walcott Emmart (Translation, Annotation, & Introduction)
by The Badianus Manuscript (Codex Barberini , Latin 241) Vatican Library, An Aztec Herbal of 1552
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940. Foreword by Henry E. Sigerist; Taupe cloth, gold spine title on burgundy printed label, gold cover device, & facsimile manuscript pages with lovely color botanical drawings; A near fine copy with garden club bookplate inside front cover, in a good+ or so orange dust jacket with small Dewey label on moderately sunned spine; 341 pages.. 9.25"x12".
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Raven Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JG7121
- Title
- Emily Walcott Emmart (Translation, Annotation, & Introduction)
- Author
- The Badianus Manuscript (Codex Barberini , Latin 241) Vatican Library, An Aztec Herbal of 1552
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening & Farming; Medicine/Diet/Longevity;
- Size
- 9.25"x12"
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Raven Books
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Ypsilanti, Michigan
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