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HORTUS VEITCHII A HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE NURSERIES OF MESSRS JAMES VEITCH AND SONS, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BOTANICAL COLLECTORS AND HYBRIDISTS
by Veitch, James H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: James Veitch & Sons. Very Good+. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean maroon cloth has bright gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt with deckle page edges. Top front corner is lightly bumped. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Illustrated with fifty b/w plates, photographs of various plants of the Royal Gardens and other large estates. Printed by a celebrated horticultural firm for private circulation only. A record of continuous work for over 3/4 of a century. Botany ; B/W Photograph Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 542 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16760
- Title
- HORTUS VEITCHII A HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE NURSERIES OF MESSRS JAMES VEITCH AND SONS, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE BOTANICAL COLLECTORS AND HYBRIDISTS
- Author
- Veitch, James H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James Veitch & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Botany, Flowers
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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