Author: BASTIN, EDSON S.
Title: Elements of Botany - Including Organography, Vegetable Histology, Vegetabale Physiology, And Vegetable Taxonomy, and a Glossary of Botanical Terms.
Description: Chicago, G.P. Engelhard & Comp. 1887. 1887. Hardcover . Hardback, 8vo, black, gilt and embossed dark blue cloth, xv + 282 pages, G to G+/no dj. Minor to moderate wear and soil to covers (book not unsightly or grieviously worn). Brown endpapers, front hinge splitting, binding mostly solid. P.O.N. in pencil to first blank page and Dedication page (W. J. Jones, Salem, Mo.) + seven small red stamps (W.J. Jones in script) to two pages (Preface and first Contents page - neatly so). Mr. Jones's druggist calling card laid-in. Eight pages of a 16-page signature (one side of the sheet during press run) has a double impression, slightly out of register, making it a little hard to read (affected pages are Glossary and Index pages). Numerous b&w drawings + frontis drawing of "Monstrous Flower" of Northern Indiana. Good.

Keywords: Botany Horticulture Plants Plant Physiology Botanical Drawings 19th Century