sowerby j e smith j e (3 Ergebnisse)

Bound in Card Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The full set of 39 parts of the first and second supplement volumes (of the first edition of Sowerby's English Botany), all in original blue wrappers. The supplements have been bound into a two bespoke hardback boxes as seen. All are uncoloured apart from plate nos. 2593 to 2692 of which 12 hand-coloured. Each volume has over 100 finely engraved botanical plates. Two plates are folding and are partially finely hand coloured. All the original wrappers are near fine whist the wrapper of the very first issue is too small as issued. Contents clean and tight and unmarked with no foxing, inscriptions or significant marks. A near fine set of the first two supplements. See scans and email for more.

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).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Twelve volume set with 1938 hand-coloured plates. Collated and complete. Small 4to. Hardback. Ex-lib. TEG. Neat repair to blank margin of two text leaves, very minor spotting, o/w. contents very clean and nr. fine. Contemporary half morocco over green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spines. More recent end-papers and internal hinges neatly strengthened. Bindings showing some rubbing and shelf wear, still very sound and vg. to thor. vg.