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Author: Pratt, Anne
Title: The Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails
Place: London
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Date: [1862]
Item # : 165946
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   178
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 207
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Description:
iv, 164 pp. Illustrated with 41 hand-colored lithographs J. B. Sowerby with tissue guards. 9x5¾, blind-stamped green cloth with gilt-lettered spine.
Exquisite plates with vivid color and remarkable detail.
Condition:
Spine sunned and rubbed, corners showing, some fading and soiling to boards; scattered pen and pencil marks to volume, some foxing, else very good or better.
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