Duppa on the Linnaean system of botany illustrated
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2015-12-15
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| Sold for | 16000 SEK |
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| Estimate | 12 000-15 000 SEK |
(DUPPA, RICHARD). (3). The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous plants. I-III. London (T. Bensley) 1816.
8:o (233x141). 240 handcoloured engraved plates (all, minor foxing).
Contemporary dark red full morocco, somewhat worn, nice gilt borders, inner gilt border, partly gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt. Some foxing or slight offsetting from plates to text. Bookseller label "Parker & Son, Oxford". Bookplate of John B. Fletcher. 3 volumes.
Soulsby 804, Nissen, BBI:566. First edition.
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