Smith sir j e sowerby james (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Twelve volume set with 2,754 fine hand coloured copper engraved plates. Each vol. with seperate Latin and English plant names as published. 8vo. Hardback. Contents very clean with only very occ. quite minor spotting, a little more so to the text sections of two vols. Contemporary cloth binding, internally very sound, externally showing rubbing and some wear, more so to five of the twelve vols. A magnificent work. '"English Botany" is of value even to the present day as a work of reference, and as an illustrated flora of our country it has never been surpassed.' (Henrey).…