Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumberate and Describe the Flowering and Filicoid Plants of Chester County, in the State of Pennsylvania; With Brief Notices of Their Properties, and Uses, in Medicine, Domestic and Rural Economy, and the Arts
by Darlington, William
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Very Good -
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
West Chester, Pa: printed for the author, by S. Siegfried, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good -. "For Sale by Kimber and Sharpless, Philadelphia." xxiii, [1], 640 p., frontispiece (engraved, hand-colored map of Chester County); 20 cm. Contemporary tree calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on leather label in second compartment. Includes index of the genera and species, and index of English and foreign names. First Edition. Former owner's name on blank page following front endpapers: Joseph J. Hopkins. The author, William Darlington (1782-1863), was the president of the Chester County Bank (or National Bank of Chester County), represented Pennsylvania in Congress, founded and was president of the Chester County Medical Society, and was a well-known botanist. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; front board is scraped; closed tear in frontispiece map, archivally repaired; old dampstain along lower edge of endpapers only; foxing throughout, generally light; otherwise, clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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- Title
- Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumberate and Describe the Flowering and Filicoid Plants of Chester County, in the State of Pennsylvania; With Brief Notices of Their Properties, and Uses, in Medicine, Domestic and Rural Economy, and the Arts
- Author
- Darlington, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- printed for the author, by S. Siegfried
- Place of Publication
- West Chester, Pa
- Date Published
- 1837
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology; Pennsylvania; Gardening & Nature;
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