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    By Sir James Edward Smith; W. Jackson Hooker (ed.)
    London   Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
    9" by 5.5" xvii, 504pp.
    A seventh edition of Sir James Edward Smith's guide to botany, with illustrated plates.
    By Sir James Edward Smith; W. Jackson Hooker (ed.)

    1833 An Introduction to the Study of Botany

    London   Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
    9" by 5.5" xvii, 504pp.
    A seventh edition of Sir James Edward Smith's guide to botany, with illustrated plates.
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    Description

    Illustrated, Scarce

    A scarce seventh edition. With 21 engraved plates to the rear of the book. Sir James Edward Smith's comprehensive guide to botany with chapters on bark, wood, natural history and vegetation. Corrected and edited by W. Jackson Hooker, former professor of botany at the University of Glasgow. With the previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste-down and the publisher's advertisements to the front of the book.

    Condition

    In full cloth binding. Externally, smart with shelf wear to the extremities and some marks to the boards. Bumping and chipping to the spine. Fading to the spine. The title plate is darkened and worn. Previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste-down. Creasing to the front free endpaper. A few scattered spots to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with some light spotting. Heavier on the plates.

    Very Good

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