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Librería: Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books, IOBA., Citrus Heights, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
London. Printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street. 1791. Third Edition with Corrections and Improvements. Octavo 8 1/2 x 6). [vii], viii-xxiii, [xxiv], 1-503 pp. plus indices [22] pp. The double page chart "The Outlines of Linnaeus System of Vegetables" [to face page 108] is bound with the Indices. The book is bound in its original tan and gray paper over boards with the title neatly inked on the spine. There is a bit of damp staining in the lower margins of the last few pages of the indices, two small tears on the corners of the end papers, and the front board is slightly split, but this is a very good book.
Publicado por B. and J. White at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, London, England, 1796
Librería: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Leather-bound. Condición: Good Plus. Fifth Edition. Small quarto, Contemporary mottled calf measuring 8 1/2" x 5 3/8". Front and rear boards each double-ruled in gilt with a continuous gilt device (appearing like tiny life preservers strung upon a striped rope), and a contrasting, gilt-on-black title label, perhaps a replacement (?). Inner dentelles surrounding the front and rear pastedown endpapers. Endpapers decorated with one of the loveliest marbling we've ever seen -- a three-color tree design branching over thestone marble design, which itself looks more like an electronic microscopic view of tree cells. Previous owner's name Mary ______, with the date of 1800 below half-title. Fold-out chart ("The Outlines of Linnaeus's System of Vegetables"Rear board separating but still held quite firmly by its three cords. Blemish to front endpaper. Some very modest penciled "x" marks and several handwritten notations to margins.Some unobtrusive toning to some pages in last third of book. 503 pp. plus indices of English names (12 pp.); Latin names (12 pp.); Natural Tribes or Orders of Plants Mentioned or Explained in the foregoing (?) Letters (1 pp.); Index of Terms Casually Explained in the Course of This Work ( 4 pp.).
Publicado por B White & Son, 1785
Librería: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, Reino Unido
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Book Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. B White & Son, 1785. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. xxiii, [1] pp503 + indices. Bound in full calf, morocco label to spine, gilt to spine. Leather is worn at edges and corners, hinges starting but holding firm. Pages are toned, some occasional foxing, top edge a little dusty. Fold-out table. See pictures on this listing.
Publicado por For B. White, London, 1787 and 1788
Librería: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Octavo. 2nd edition. Translated into English from the French of J.J. Rousseau with notes and twenty-four additional letters fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. Two books in one. First part: Half-title, 500pp., [28]pp index, page 16 is mis-numbered 6. An additional title page dated 1788 titled "Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations. This set of plates was intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany in the University of Cambridge". All hand-colored plates present and one folding table. These plates, by F.P. Nodder, were not included with the first or second editions. They were later published to be added to the those editions and subsequent editions making them the first edition of plates with text. Bound together in a handsome 20th century 1/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards with vellum corners, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. An exceptionally nice copy with glue ghost to front pastedown from bookplate? p. xxv numbered. See [ESTC T69543; T137987].