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The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica,; the Botanical Analysis, Natural History, and Chemical and Medical Properties and Uses of Plants
by Good, Peter P
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA; (1854): Peter P. Good Jr.. Octavo. In two volumes, a new edition, revised and enlarged, engraved title page, half-title and regular title page, containing 96 colored plates each with blank page prior to plate itself to ward off any off-setting to the previous text, 2 additional color plates of the vegetable kingdom numbered 99 and 100. with tissue guards present, and an engraved portrait of the author. paginations; Vol. 1: Lv, 1-4; Vol. II: Vol. II: xxxvi, 1-4. i.e. each plate is described within 4 numbered pages giving its name, what family it belongs to, where it is to be found, its botanical analysis, classification, essential characters, natural history, chemical and medical properties along with its uses). A handsome set with very minor occasional spots of foxing to plates, mostly marginal, bound in publisher's black embossed cloth, professionally rebacked with original spine laid down, endpapers renewed, chipping to upper joint of volume two,, wear to corners. Very nice.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021973
- Title
- The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica,; the Botanical Analysis, Natural History, and Chemical and Medical Properties and Uses of Plants
- Author
- Good, Peter P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Peter P. Good Jr.
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA; (1854)
- Keywords
- Botanicals Botany Chemical Properties Medical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Rebacked
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- Plate
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- Octavo
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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