Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
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DUPPA, RICHARD
The classes and orders of the Linnaean system of botany illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous plants. London: printed by T. Bensley for Longman [etc.], 1816. First edition. 3 volumes, contemporary straight-grain morocco, covers tooled with rolls in gilt and blind, spine gilt. 9 inches (23 cm), all edges gilt. Frontispiece, xxvii, 549 (continuously paginated), [102] pp., with 240 plates, all but three delicately handcolored. Nicely bound copy (faded to brown on the spines, some minor wear), internally generally clean (the plates very fresh), one text leaf with a clean tear. With the bookplate of Mary Agnes Thornton in each volume.
A typographically elegant and attractively illustrated introduction to botanical classification. Nissen Die Botanische Buchillustration... 566.
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DUPPA, RICHARD
The classes and orders of the Linnaean system of botany illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous plants. London: printed by T. Bensley for Longman [etc.], 1816. First edition. 3 volumes, contemporary straight-grain morocco, covers tooled with rolls in gilt and blind, spine gilt. 9 inches (23 cm), all edges gilt. Frontispiece, xxvii, 549 (continuously paginated), [102] pp., with 240 plates, all but three delicately handcolored. Nicely bound copy (faded to brown on the spines, some minor wear), internally generally clean (the plates very fresh), one text leaf with a clean tear. With the bookplate of Mary Agnes Thornton in each volume.
A typographically elegant and attractively illustrated introduction to botanical classification. Nissen Die Botanische Buchillustration... 566.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
