Ladies' Botany: or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany. Vol. I-II
by Lindley, John
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- Hardcover
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London: James Ridgway and Sons, [1840]. xvi, 300; viii, 280 + 16-ads, 50 hand-col plates. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo (230x145mm), later 20th century red qtr leather, with contrasting leather title pieces and gilt tooling to spines, green cloth boards. Plates slightly browned. 9cm closed tear to one text leaf. Occasional light spotting. From the library of Michael Bryant, Hampshire ornithologist, with his bookplate.. Vol. I - 4th edition, Vol. II, 2nd edition. Fine hand-coloured plates, most with images of flowers and other structures of two plants. 16-page publisher's catalogue to rear of Vol. II. Both volumes undated. Freeman gives the date of the 4th edition (Vol. I) as 1840. Freeman 2252..
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- Title
- Ladies' Botany: or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany. Vol. I-II
- Author
- Lindley, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James Ridgway and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1840]
- Keywords
- Botany; Hand-coloured plates
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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