Guide to the Literature of Botany Being a Classified List of Botanical Works, including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus'
by Jackson, B.D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Trifle rubbed at foot of spine, otherwise near Very Good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper
- ISBN 10
- 1578981484
- ISBN 13
- 9781578981489
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hafner Publishing Company, New York, 1964 reprint of 1881 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, . xl, 626 pp. Approximately 9000 entries. From the publisher's description: "Jackson's work describes approximately 9,000 works in the form of a short-title catalog, classified by type of publication. In all, Jackson was able to catalogue approximately 6,000 items that Pritzel had missed. Jackson's work is thus a useful supplement to Pritzel's famous bibliography. Trifle rubbed at foot of spine, otherwise near Very Good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper.
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- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-27433
- Title
- Guide to the Literature of Botany Being a Classified List of Botanical Works, including Nearly 6000 Titles Not Given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus'
- Author
- Jackson, B.D
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Trifle rubbed at foot of spine, otherwise near Very Good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1578981484
- ISBN 13
- 9781578981489
- Publisher
- Hafner Publishing Company, New York, 1964 reprint of 1881 first edition
- Place of Publication
- Mansfield Ctr., Ct, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1964 reprint of 1881 first edit
- Pages
- xl, 626 pp
- Keywords
- Jackson, Benjamin Daydon. 1578981484
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botanical Books (Bibliographies);
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Wykeham Books
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LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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