Wild Orchids of Britain: with a key to the species (The New Naturalist 19)
by Summerhayes, V. S
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good-
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK : Collins. Green cloth, gilt title. 384pp. 61 col. photos; 39 b/w photos; 19 figs.; 43 maps. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket with light foxing to rear panel and reverse. Slight foxing to end papers and prelims plus text block edges, but o'wise contents are clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. reprint. 1951.
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- Broad Street Book Centre
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111768
- Title
- Wild Orchids of Britain: with a key to the species (The New Naturalist 19)
- Author
- Summerhayes, V. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 384
- Size
- 222mm x 160mm.
- Keywords
- Natural History botany Orchids Britain, Unit Five
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