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16000 SEK

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7 000-9 000 SEK

Description

SOWERBY. SMITH (JAMES EDWARD). Exotic Botany: Consisting of Coloured Figures and Scientific Descriptions of New, Beautiful, or Rare Plants as are Worthy of Cultivation in the Gardens of Britain... the Figures by James Sowerby. London (R. Taylor & Co.) 1804-05- (08).

8vo (230x130 mm.). 120 hand-coloured engraved plates by James Sowerby (complete, only slight foxing, plate 106 with some spotting to outer part, plate 103 with slip pasted over caption, text with slight foxing).
Worn and damaged contemporary gilt leather binding, boards detached, gilt spine with red title label, gilt edges. Label from antiquarian shop.
Collation: I. vii, 118, (1) pp. 60 plates, II. 122, (2) pp. 60 plates.

Nissen BBI 1858, Sitwell, Great Flower Books, p. 140. The scarce octavo edition of Exotic Botany, published simultaneously with the quarto edition. Featuring recently introduced exotics from the Americas, Australia, Asia and South Africa.
James Sowerby (1757-1822), English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist.

Provenance: The consigners´ family is related to James Sowerby (1757-1822) through their great grandmother, who was the daughter Charlotte Ann Sowerby (Lottie), later married Bryant. The family´s grandmother later bought this work in London in the 1920´s.

Auktionsnummer:

6198

Date:

2019-06-14