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The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History
by Lincoln, R. J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/F/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0521305519
- ISBN 13
- 9780521305518
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press, 1987-07-31. 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG/F/VG. Smith, Roberta. Box X34 HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: University of Cambridge.* Binding and cover condition: Yellow cloth covered boards, gilt title & logo to spine. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo- illustrated dust wrapper with red and white titles and yellow ground. Spine heavily faded. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Top edge & end papers slightly aged. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to page edges and margins. Otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of colour & b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 413 pp. text. iv pp. blank at rear.* Description: This book is a concise dictionary of organisms and their ecology containing over 10,000 entries. It covers not just the more common and familiar forms but the entire spectrum of life ? plants, animals and micro-organisms. The topics include habitats, lifestyles, associations, feeding, reproductive strategies, behaviour and physiology, as well as the taxonomic names of all groups of living organisms, based ona modern system of classification.* A NEAR VG+ ex-library text copy of the 1st/1st thus with some minor faults in a VG protected dust jacket.* 0
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9449
- Title
- The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Natural History
- Author
- Lincoln, R. J
- Illustrator
- Smith, Roberta
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/F/VG
- Edition
- 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0521305519
- ISBN 13
- 9780521305518
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1987-07-31
- Pages
- 420
- X weight
- g
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