Botany for Young People and Common Schools. How Plants Grow, A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany. With A Popular Flora, or an Arrangement and Description of Common Plants, Both Wild and Cultivated (FIRST EDITION, 1858)
New York / Chicago: Ivison and Phinney / S.C. Griggs & Co., 1858. Wood Engravings. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1858. Complete botany instruction and information for classrooms and individual learning. Chapters covering, but not limited to, How Plants Grow; What Plants' Parts Are; Plants From Seed; Life in Perennials; Flowers; Seeds and How to Use Popular Flora. Illustrated with 500 detailed wood engravings, Index and Dictionary of Botanical Terms, Index to the Popular Flora. 233 pp.
CONDITION: Hardbound dark paper boards; illustration and print on covers is worn through, boards rubbed. Label of spine missing; front hinge starting, solidly bound. Writing on front and rear end pages, end papers front and rear and on title page. Very occasional pencil highlighting within volume. Edge and shelf wear, leaves age toned, yet easily read. Several laid in poems. Good condition. Full refund if not satisfied. Good.
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Price: $40.00