Curtis william lawrence john (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Sixth Edition. Later pale blue stiff card wrappers; clean and tidy, no marks, no splits, no creases. Contents crisp, fresh and tight, not showing any pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 225mm x 150mm; collation: pp. [iv], 165, [1, an explanation of the fold-out plate], [2, book adverts], complete with 8 hand-coloured plates (7 full page and 1 fold-out showing 9 figures). A particularly clean, bright copy, very presentable.…

Cloth-backed boards. Zustand: Good. Fifth edition. Fifth edition, with additions by John Lawrence. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates - 7 of grasses and a folding plate of corn blight, octavo, pp 116, wide-margined and untrimmed, endpapers foxed but otherwise only very slightly marked internally, contemporary boards with later simple cloth spine and paper label, the front hinge strengthened, but a pleasing copy. [Curtis was an eminent botanist, born in Alton, Hampshire in 1746. His book was an attempt to promote the pasture grasses and to ensure a pure supply was developed. Joseph Banks' pamphlet was first published in 1805. It was included in Curtis' work from the fourth edition onwards.].…