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A Garden of Simples [Anthony Huxley's copy]
by Flint, Martha Bockee
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charle Scribner's Sons, 1900. Small octavo, pp (6), 307, edges untrimmed, very slight foxing, a contemporary bookplate of M Johnston on the front endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, slightly worn, lacking part of the papder title label on the spine. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front free endpaper. . First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020287
- Title
- A Garden of Simples [Anthony Huxley's copy]
- Author
- Flint, Martha Bockee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charle Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Bookseller catalogs
- Herbals; Victorian;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mike Park Ltd
Biblio member since 2005
London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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- Bookplate
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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