American Flower-Garden Directory: Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Flower-Garden, Hot-House, Rooms, or Parlour Windows, For Every Month of the Year.
Published by E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1839
- Hardcover
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 125.00
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American Flower-Garden Directory: Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Flower-Garden, Hot-House, Rooms, or Parlour Windows, For Every Month of the Year. By Robert Buist, E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1839, 377 pp plus publisher’s list, half leather, 9 x 6”, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to edges and corners. Marbled boards are scuffed with peeling at edges. Spine abraded with loss of leather at tips. Red rot afflicts the bottom compartment. Leather flaking from spine. Front fly detached and chipped. Interior toned with heavier foxing throughout. Old hand ownership on title. Free of known markings. Binding intact. Please see photos. A handy month-to-month guide on the cultivation of gardens both indoor and outdoor. With everything from how to build a green house to the care and keeping of hyacinths and tulips. Pages 357-370 are dedicated to the grape vine.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- American Flower-Garden Directory: Containing Practical Directions for the Culture of Plants, in the Flower-Garden, Hot-House, Rooms, or Parlour Windows, For Every Month of the Year.
- Author
- Buist, Robert
- Publisher
- E.L. Carey & A. Hart
- Publication year
- 1839
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
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ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
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Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore.
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The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Inc. (Rare Books Division)
3401 North Sixth Street
Harrisburg, PA U.S.A. 17110
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Chosen as Publishers Weekly's 2023 Bookstore of the Year! Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore. ... A buyer is eligible to receive a full refund if a book is not in the condition described.
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