Wild Flowers Drawn and Colored From Nature
by BADGER, Mrs. G. M., introduction by L. H. Sigourney;
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Bookseller
- Horizon Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J12751
- Title
- Wild Flowers Drawn and Colored From Nature
- Author
- BADGER, Mrs. G. M., introduction by L. H. Sigourney;
- Format/Binding
- Original full blind-stamped leather, gilt picture on front cover, gilt title, gilt spine decorations, all edges gilted, cover we
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York, Charles Scribner, 1859, First edition.
- Size
- folio [36.5 x 29 cm]; vii, [i],
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature - Botany;
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- Folio
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