Flowers Of The Field And Forest. From Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature By Isaac Sprague. Descriptive Text By Rev. A.B.Hervey. With Extracts From Longfellow, Lowell, Bryant, Emerson, And Others
by HERVEY, A.B. & SPRAGUE, Isaac [1811-1895]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Troy, N.Y.: Nims And Knight, 1892., 1892. 4to. unpaginated. 10 chromolithographs. original decorative cloth, gilt edges (lower cover stained, extremities little frayed, small pieces of tissue adhering to 2 plates, tears in tissue guards, plates offset, light foxing to some plate margins). First Edition.. F. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NRVowHER45
- Title
- Flowers Of The Field And Forest. From Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature By Isaac Sprague. Descriptive Text By Rev. A.B.Hervey. With Extracts From Longfellow, Lowell, Bryant, Emerson, And Others
- Author
- HERVEY, A.B. & SPRAGUE, Isaac [1811-1895]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- F
- Publisher
- Troy, N.Y.: Nims And Knight, 1892.
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- NATURAL-HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural-History;
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D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Plate
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