Author: Thomas Croxen Archer
Title: Profitable Plants; a Description of the Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc.
Description: London, George Routledge & Sons, c1865. Cloth. A brightly illustrated copy of this uncommon work on plants of profit from British botanist Thomas Croxen Archer. Uncommon work. Illustrated with twenty hand-coloured plates. Collated complete. A detailed work on the origins of vegetation used for food, clothing, tanning, dyeing, medicine, and perfumery. With reference to tea plants, coffee plants, sugar cane, the prickly pear, various nuts, cotton plants, hemp, palms, oils from seeds, and much more. Written by Thomas Croxen Archer, a British botanist who was Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland, also known as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. Dated from the British Library. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Splits to the cloth at the head and tail of the joints. Hinges just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. The odd ink or pencil annotation. Minor age toning to the extremities with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription to the title page. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Profitable Plants Articles Origin Plants Not Stated


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