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The Art of the Plant World : The Great Botanical Illustrators and Their Work
by Rix, Martyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0879511184
- ISBN 13
- 9780879511180
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1981. A gorgeous copy that appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO rubbing. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($60.00 to 12/31/81;$75.00 thereafter). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. Fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. 314 illustrations including 64 lavish full-color plates. Traces the development of botany and botanical illustration in America and Europe with gorgeous examples from the art of Albrecht Durer, Mark Catesby, Claude Aubriet, Maria Merian, Giacomo Ligozzi, Nicolas Robert, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, the brothers Francis and Ferdinand Bauer, etc. First U. S. printing with "First published in the United States…" so stated on the copyright page. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown cloth. From the dust jacket: "Exquisitely printed and bound, this distinguished volume has as its main theme the intimate relationship between exploration and illustration in botany… THE ART OF THE PLANT WORLD follows the development of botanical knowledge as expressed in illustrations… The major names in botanical illustration are represented by some of their most striking plates." Oversize Hardcover. 9.75" wide by 13.5" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail.. First U. S. Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 224pp.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017719
- Title
- The Art of the Plant World : The Great Botanical Illustrators and Their Work
- Author
- Rix, Martyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First U. S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0879511184
- ISBN 13
- 9780879511180
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock, New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature / Natural History / Ecology / Gardening;
- Size
- 224pp
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About the Seller
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Henderson, Nevada
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