The Planter's Guide; Or, A Practical Essay On The Best Method Of Giving Immediate Effect To Wood, By The Removal Of Large Trees And Underwood; Being An Attempt To Place The Art, And That of General Agriculture, On Phytological and Fixed Principles; etc.
by Steuart, Sir Henry
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- Condition
- Contemporary full brown calf. Very good
- Seller
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About This Item
Edinburgh: John Murray, 1828. Second edition. Greatly improved and enlarged. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 527 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Six engraved plates. Errata slip, advert dated 5th Nov. 1828 noting that unless the author has provided persons instructed by him with a hand written certificate; all others are impostors. Two bookplates, small nick backstrip head, front cover joint cracked but firm, text clean, plates toned at margins with offsetting to adjacent text, raised bands, triple gilt cover border panels, marbled endpapers and matching edges.
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- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19946
- Title
- The Planter's Guide; Or, A Practical Essay On The Best Method Of Giving Immediate Effect To Wood, By The Removal Of Large Trees And Underwood; Being An Attempt To Place The Art, And That of General Agriculture, On Phytological and Fixed Principles; etc.
- Author
- Steuart, Sir Henry
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary full brown calf. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition. Greatly improved and enlarged
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1828
- Keywords
- Gardening
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Flora;
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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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...