The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain. Vol. I-IV
by Pratt, A.; Step, E
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1899-1900. xiv, 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 215, 4 plain + 319 col plates. . HB. 4 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. blue dec. cloth with floral art nouveau style design in black to front boards, gilt title to front boards and spines, teg. A little rubbed, with minor wear to extemities. Some foxing to endpapers, one title page, and occasional light spotting elsewhere. Very good set.. New Edition, revised by Edward Step. Attractive chromolithographic plates. Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was a botanical illustrator and author of a number of popular Victorian natural history books. This, her magnum opus, was first published in 6 volumes, 1850-1857..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A50857
- Title
- The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges & Ferns of Great Britain. Vol. I-IV
- Author
- Pratt, A.; Step, E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899-1900
- Keywords
- Botany; Britain; Colour plates; Ferns; Grasses; PBFA; Sedges; Wild Flowers
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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