An Arrangement of British Plants; According to the Latest Improvements of the Linnaean System. To Which is Prefixed, an Easy Introduction to the Study of Botany
by WITHERING, WILLIAM
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M Swinney (Printer)/G. G. & J. Robinson 1796. 4 VOLUME SET, octavo, red leather boards, gilt lettering to title plate to spines, vol 1- xii + 402pp, vol 2- 512pp, vol 3- 408pp, vol 4- 418pp, illus/plates, VG (moderate chafing to spines, light cracking to front hinge of vol 1, moderate chafing to boards with light soiling, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, enthusiastic annotations to eps & text throughout in ink & pencil, owner's name in ink to fep, buckram reinforcements to gutters- very sturdy)
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- An Arrangement of British Plants; According to the Latest Improvements of the Linnaean System. To Which is Prefixed, an Easy Introduction to the Study of Botany
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- WITHERING, WILLIAM
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- Hardcover
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- M Swinney (Printer)/G. G. & J. Robinson 1796
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- British plants boatny illustrated nature science flowers mosses lichens
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