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The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
by Darwin, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1886. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Exlibrary marks. Lightly circulated. Front hinge paper cracked but holding, binding and rear hinge sound. Writing on ffep along with scraped area. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is lightly shelf worn with edge rubbing and wear to extremities of spine and corner tips. ; Chapters arranged by species of orchids. Line drawings throughout. ; Ex-Library; 8.0" tall; 300 pages.
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- Seller
- Cat's Cradle Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 3420084
- Title
- The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
- Author
- Darwin, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- HORTICULTURE, FLORICULTURE, GARDENING, ORCHIDS, INSECTS, FERTILIZATION, BOTANY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals and Nature;
Terms of Sale
Cat's Cradle Books
Shipment immediately upon payment. Returns cheerfully accepted. If return results from our error, we refund price of book plus all shipping costs. if return is for any other reason, buyer pays cost of return shipping.
About the Seller
Cat's Cradle Books
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High Point, North Carolina
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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