Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns arranged according to the natural orders
by BABINGTON, Charles Cardale
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About This Item
London: John Van Voorst, 1856.. Fourth edition, 12mo, xxiv, 12, xxv-xxxii, 13-446 pp, with the first gathering of the text misbound earlier in the contents. Contemporary inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary black full calf, covers with double gilt rules to edges and a diamond pattern of blind rules, mild rubbing to the spine, metal clasp to the fore edge. First published 1843.
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- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25426
- Title
- Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns arranged according to the natural orders
- Author
- BABINGTON, Charles Cardale
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: John Van Voorst
- Date Published
- 1856.
- Keywords
- Natural History
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...