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ORCHIDS
by WALTER KUPPER AND WALTER LINSENMAIER (TRANSLATOR JEAN W. LITTLE)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
EDINBURGH: THOMAS NELSON AND SONS , 1961 Royal Blue Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine. 295 x 210 mm approx. 128 pp 60 full colour plates. First Edition 1961. Although the book offered lacks it's dust jacket it has an interesting provenance in that it has the armorial book plate of the Pitt family to the front paste down. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good (Book - mild general shelf wear and soiling to boards, book plate as above, a few light dust spots to top edge. No other notable defects).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131815
- Title
- ORCHIDS
- Author
- WALTER KUPPER AND WALTER LINSENMAIER (TRANSLATOR JEAN W. LITTLE)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
- Place of Publication
- EDINBURGH
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Orchids, Walter Kupper, Walter Linsenmaier Illustrated, Botany, Pitt Family Bookplate, William Pitt, George Pitt, Natural History, Flora,
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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