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The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, As Also, the Physic Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienc'd Gardners.
by Philip Miller
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- Hardcover
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Author, 1733. .of the Present Age. Interspers'd with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the origin, Causes, and Nature of meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers.; The Second Edition, Corrected.; Full brown leather rebacked ages ago with the origional boards skilfully laid back, gilt title on faded red Morocco spine label, raised bands, blind panels & decoration to covers, frontis engraving + 2 additional full page at the back; A very nice good+ binding with handsome botanical bookplate inside front cover, over an essentially very good bright textblock woth ink owner name/date atop title page; Unpaginated. Size: 9"x14". Hardcover.
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- White Raven Books
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- GMM12823
- Title
- The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, As Also, the Physic Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienc'd Gardners.
- Author
- Philip Miller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1733
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening & Farming; Books on Books & Reference;
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Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- Spine Label
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- Bookplate
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- Morocco
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Rebacked
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