Large 8vo. x, 671, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, ownership inscription dated October 1903 to the front free endpaper "J.B. Mercer Adam, R.I.E.C. Coopers Hill". 686 illustrations in the text, a handful in colour. An excellent copy. The Royal Indian Engineering College ("R.I.E.C." or sometimes known as the I.C.E. (Indian Civil Engineering) College) was open between 1872 and 1906, located on the Cooper's Hill estate near Egham, Surrey.

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A Text-Book of Botany. Translated from the German by H.C. Potter. Second Edition, Revised with the Fifth German Edition by W.H. Lang.

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London: Macmillan & Co. Limited

Publication Date

1903

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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association

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