The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain: ... and their allies The Club Mosses,Pepperworts and Horsetails
by Anne Pratt
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Westmount (Montreal), Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Near fine, an unusually fresh set, in publisher's elaborate decorated cloth; first edition thus. Contains over 300 spectacular colour plates, illustrating 1500+ species, including tissue-guarded frontispieces (tissue lacking in vol.1).
Missing 3" from decorative red on-lay of title-border of vol.2; vol.4 with some bubbling to front cover; a little rubbing to gilt stamped spines, and minor creasing to ends. All edges gilt, a couple vols. with one or two plates protruding slightly; vol.4 a little loose; light foxing to some plates and adjacent pages.
This is a six volume expansion of the author's 1855 SPCK five volume Flowering Plants of Great Britain.
NB — This item will require additional postage.
Missing 3" from decorative red on-lay of title-border of vol.2; vol.4 with some bubbling to front cover; a little rubbing to gilt stamped spines, and minor creasing to ends. All edges gilt, a couple vols. with one or two plates protruding slightly; vol.4 a little loose; light foxing to some plates and adjacent pages.
This is a six volume expansion of the author's 1855 SPCK five volume Flowering Plants of Great Britain.
NB — This item will require additional postage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CABF-11
- Title
- The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain
- Author
- Anne Pratt
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's original pictorial gilt green cloth, all edges gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- ca. 1873
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Botany. Flowers. Plants. Botanical. Colour plates. Color plates.
Terms of Sale
Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller
Prices net to all. Items guaranteed and offered subject to prior sale; held for 7 days pending receipt of payment. Payment with order (may also be made in US $ or £ Sterling at current rates); postage and insurance at cost. Visa and MasterCard accepted. Canadian orders add 5% GST. Items may be returned for any reason within three days of receipt, at customer's expense.
About the Seller
Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2021
Westmount (Montreal), Quebec
About Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller
We are general dealers in antiquarian and out-of-print books with a few specialties in subjects/authors of particular interest to us, including Lewis Carroll, Gilbert & Sullivan, Tennis & other sports, and Vanity Fair caricatures. We are members in good standing of he ABAC, ILAB, CLAQ, and the PBFA. We exhibit at book fairs across Canada, the US and the UK, so we hope to see you there!
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