Vegetable staticks. Foreword to this edition by Dr. M.A. Hoskin.
by HALES, Stephen
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About This Item
London: Scientific Book Guild, [1961]. 8vo. 214 pp. Numerous plates. Colour-illust. boards, minor bmpng to crnrs, creasng frnt cvr, still G copy. First SBG edition of this famed work on plant physiology first published in 1727, describing the loss of water in plants by evaporation.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 36398
- Title
- Vegetable staticks. Foreword to this edition by Dr. M.A. Hoskin.
- Author
- HALES, Stephen
- Book condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scientific Book Guild,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date published
- [1961].
- Keywords
- Botany, Biology, Plant Physiology, Science, History of Science, Stephen Hales, Agriculture, Horticulture
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