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Kew _ The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens
by Desmond, Ray; Prance, Professor Sir Ghillean
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 1860460763
- ISBN 13
- 9781860460760
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Harvill Press, 1995. Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto. Hardcover. Good/good. green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 466 pp, dj lightly soiled and worn at the edges, top edge lightly soiled
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96219
- Title
- Kew _ The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens
- Author
- Desmond, Ray; Prance, Professor Sir Ghillean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto
- ISBN 10
- 1860460763
- ISBN 13
- 9781860460760
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- history, English history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardens;
Terms of Sale
San Francisco Book Company
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San Francisco Book Company
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Paris
About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
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- Soiled
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- Quarto
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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- 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...
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