A GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK OF ALL THE KNOWN FERNS WITH TABLES TO SKOW THEIR DISTRIBUTION

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Original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and blocked gilt fern specimen to upper board, 205 x 135 mm approx. bible black end papers, Steel engraved illustrated half title on heavy paper, title + x + 2 pp omissions and errata + 226 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. First Edition 1870. Handbook on ferns published at a time when there was a Victorian craze for collecting them.The book is now very scarce. The copy offered has the armorial bookplate of John James Russell to the reverse of the front free end paper with the Latin motto of the Northumberland Fusiliers "Que Fata Vocant" Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Restoration work - the book was bought in by us with damage to the head of the spine. A new head cap with best match green cloth has been fitted and the cloth cleaned, a little colour restoration where rubbed and the corners tidied up and firmed with paste. Bookplate as above, some pencil markings to distribution tables at rear, no other notable defects). N° de ref. del artículo 131152

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