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The Orchard, Including the Management of Wall and Standard Fruit Trees, and the Forcing Pit, with Selected Lists and Synonymes of the Most Choice Varieties
by Charles McIntosh; Orr & Compy
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London : Wm S. Orr and Co. Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, 1839-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. viii, 420 pages, 18 hand colored pl., 19 cm. Near Fine condition. Bound in contemporary full green Moroccan leather. Gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Gilt tooling on boards. Inlaid gilt tooling on inside board extremities. AEG. 5 raised bands. Tight binding and cover. Minimal wear to extremities. Owners name on inside board of Arthur W. Hoyt, 1852. with his library number noted. All plates called for are present. Foxing to tissue guards only. Faint notation on early pages by contemporary hand in pencil. Clean pages. Dunthorne 191; Great flower books p. 66. BMC XVI, 361.8281
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- SequiturBooks
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- 1409300017
- Title
- The Orchard, Including the Management of Wall and Standard Fruit Trees, and the Forcing Pit, with Selected Lists and Synonymes of the Most Choice Varieties
- Author
- Charles McIntosh; Orr & Compy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London : Wm S. Orr and Co. Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
- Date Published
- 1839-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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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...
- Spine
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Raised Band(s)
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