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A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses
by Mrs M. Grieve
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with age-spotting to the verso and flaps.
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Adelaide: Savvas Publishing, 1985. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with age-spotting to the verso and flaps. Minor age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete, clean and tight.. ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.1kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback in dust wrapper (brown boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9” x 6½” (2.1 kg); (xv) 912pp; Index; Edited by Mrs. C. F. Leyel; Cover art by Mon Mohan; Preface by Mrs. C. F. Leyel; Includes: Black & white plates; 2-column text; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #196804|| Condition:
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 196804
- Title
- A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses
- Author
- Mrs M. Grieve
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with age-spotting to the verso and flaps.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adelaide: Savvas Publishing
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- medicinal plants, materia medica, medicinal vegetables, folklore plants, usage herbs, using herbs, utilization herbs, medical botany, plant medicine, herbal medicine, books by mrs m grieve, mrs c f leyel, mon mohan
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BookLovers of Bath
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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