Introduction Study Plants, First Edition (15 results)

hardcover. Condition: very good. no jacket. b/w photos throughout (illustrator). 1st edition. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4", 188 pages, 139 b/w illustrations. ex library, spine label inked, stamped withdrawn on title page. pocket on last page & old pocket removed from inside rear cover.

First edition 371pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (rear flap of d/w cut and attached to ffep) d/w very good in plastic (light rubbing), illust.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 397 pages (complete). Rebound. The covers are storage worn. The binding is strong and tight. The papertrims are marked from handling and storage. The contents are clean, bright, clear, fresh and sound. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: no DJ. first edition. 8vo 188pp. from Preface: "This book is intended for students who have completed at least a year's course of study in Botany at a British or American College or University. I hope that those who use it will be encouraged to examine actual specimens and sections of fossil plants, [. . .] To appreciate the value of the evidence provided by fossils it is essential that the student should handle examples and know something about their nature, origin, and the methods used in their investigation." #01708. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, name on FFEP, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1909 first edition in 1/4 leather. VG. Very light wear. Binding is strong. Light foxing and notations to endpapers. Text is clean. Ships in a box packed with care.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 188, very clean internally, green cloth with the corners slightly bruised, otherwise good, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. With the signature of Frank Wightman, University of Leeds, on the front endpaper, and a sheaf of nadwritten jotes loosely inserted at the rear.

1st ed. Owner's name on title page; some light foxing; hinges cracked & repaired; wear to cloth at board edges, & at head, foot & joints of spine; gilt lettering and decoration on spine dull & worn; some loss of colour on boards. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in dark green cloth with gilt Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in dark green cloth with gilt.

Hard covers, dust jacket. No Jacket. 1st edition. Jacket frayed and torn; hinges starting. A few annotations in text. x, 188 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Very Good copy in green cloth of the 1895 first edition. Owner's name embossure at the bottom corner of the title page. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and not ex-library. Book.

1st edition (?). Blue boards, gilt embossed spine lettering & decoration. Blind-stamped decorations front and rear panel. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts. Contents: moderate spotting to endpapers. Inner hinges neatly reinforced otherwise tight throughout. Pages generally very good and clean. Book plate & number inside front board. boards: closed splits both spine edges. Strip loss top and tail of spine. Cloth a little frayed/chipped. Corners & edges moderately rubbed/scuffed. Light surface rubbing to panels. A solid reference copy. 641 pp +.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very light sunning to spine; 422 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. owners inscriptions, shelf wear, binding good. S12 1.

Longmans, Green: Lonond 1897. Illus, 10 x 7", olive cloth, 598pp, Englished by William G. Smith, ex-library, corners bumped, ink name. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Front endpapers missing. Foxing throughout. Leather covers worn and rubbed. Large chip to head of spine. Inner hinges and binding sound.

Cloth. Condition: Good. James Sowerby (illustrator). First Edition. Two volumes bound in one, small thick octavo, illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby, pp x, 795,(i), endpapers marked, otherwise very clean internally, there is a cracking and weakness at pages 328/9 which could lead to a gathering coming loose, bound in a simple Victorian pebble cloth, slightly worn, with a slight tear to the spine head. RARE. [An appendix was published four years later. Thomas Purton was a surgeon who practised in London and in Alcester. He is particulalrly remembered for his mycological collections. This work was praised by Sir James Smith for its accuracy, but a little damned by Sir Charles Hastings for "its interminable additions, corrections and appendices". It is, nevertheless, a work of great detail and charm.].