Price: £1,500.00
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Book Condition: Poor
10 vols, [various paginations], 240 beautiful hand coloured plates through these, the first 10 volumes bound in a bottle green half morocco with green marbled boards. Bindings are in largely fragmentary state, many vols are missing spines, and boards are frequently detatched. The contents, remain in very good clean order, particularly the plates which are bright and clean throughout. Volume 1 has the engraved title page correctly stating vol. 1, but has a title page dated 1827 obviously supplied by the binders at the time of binding.
Title: The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain with Their Classification History Culture and Other Interesting Information. Volumes 1 to 10
Categories: Natural History, Plate Books,
Publisher: Paternoster Row, London, Baldwin Cradock & Joy 1827 [1825] onwards: 1827
Binding: Half Morocco
Book Condition: Poor
Size: Large 8vo.
Book number: 41458
Keywords: Natural, History, Plants, Hand, Coloured, Plates, Breaker,