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How to know the wild flowers : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers / by Mrs. William Starr Dana ; illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw ...
LIBRA - Blank Collection QK118 .P24 1903 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parsons, Frances Theodora, 1861-1952.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wild flowers--Northeastern States--Identification.
- Wild flowers.
- Wild flowers--Northeastern States--Pictorial works.
- Northeastern States.
- Genre:
- Field guides.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, [1], 346, [8] pages, [158] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- New edition / with colored plates ; 66th thousand.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.
- Contents:
- Introductory Chapter
- Explanation of Terms
- Notable Plant Families
- Flower Descriptions: White, Green, Yellow, Pink, Red, Blue and Purple, Miscellaneous.
- Notes:
- Contains prefaces to new and first editions.
- "As color plates replace, in this edition, certain of the black and white illustrations, these, with a few others have been omitted and Miss Satterlee has added a number of new drawings ... Quite a large number of flowers not found in previous editions, are now described, and advantage has been taken of the opportunity which the entire resetting of the book afforded for a careful revision of the text."--Preface to the New Edition.
- Includes indexes.
- Publisher's advertisements: [6] pages at end.
- Green cloth with floral design on front cover and spine; lettered in gilt.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has autograph of June Yale Crouter, May 19, 1904.
- Kislak copy has funeral announcement and dried plants laid in.
- Kislak copy has check marks and penciled annotations.
- Kislak copy has front cover, front free endpaper and half title page partially disbound
- OCLC:
- 30011052
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