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A Family Herbal: Or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants Also Their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean System
by Thornton, Robert John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Stationer's Court, Ludgate Street: B. & R. Crosby & Co., 1814. Second edition, "considerably enlarged and improved." With an engraved portrait frontispiece, and with 258 engravings of plants drawn by Henderson and engraved by Thomas Bewick, thick octavo, pp xxviii, 902, [13], [lacking one leaf of the index and with several leaves neatly repaired], a small adhesion spot to the frontispiece and the title page has led to slight loss of surface to both, generally clean and tight throughout, twentieth century full calf, lined to the margins, decorated spine, slight scuff damage to the uppoer cover otherwise just generally very slightly rubbed. [Before the new binding, the book had obviously been dropped on its upper corner and all pages are bruised and creased - see illustration. ]. Second edition. Full-Leather. Good. Illus. by Thomas Bewick. Henderson. .
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017889
- Title
- A Family Herbal: Or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants Also Their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean System
- Author
- Thornton, Robert John
- Illustrator
- Thomas Bewick. Henderson.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- B. & R. Crosby & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Stationer's Court, Ludgate Street
- Date Published
- 1814
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrators; Herbals; Botanical Illustration; Early works;
Terms of Sale
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Mike Park Ltd
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London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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