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SWEET, ROBERT [association copy] - Flora Australasica
Estimate:
$800 - $1,000
Sold
$750
Timed Auction
167: Rare Books
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SWEET, ROBERT [association copy]
Flora Australasica
or a Selection of Handsome or Curious Plants, Natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... London: James Ridgeway 1827-1828. Drawings by E.D. Smith, F.L.S. Botanical artist. 54 plates of hand-coloured illustrations [lacking plates no’s 11 and 39 and lacking the 2p of text for plate no 10]. The hand-coloured plates and text are mostly crisp and clean, tear to alphabetical index and neat tape repair. 255mm, rebound into green cloth with gilt to spine, loosely enclosed are the original green blind stamped boards and part of the original spine strip.
Inscribed on endpaper ‘The Reverend R. Taylor with the Kindest regards Charles G. Hewson. With the bookplate of Richard M.S. Taylor. Epsom Trust plate.
Flora Australasica
or a Selection of Handsome or Curious Plants, Natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... London: James Ridgeway 1827-1828. Drawings by E.D. Smith, F.L.S. Botanical artist. 54 plates of hand-coloured illustrations [lacking plates no’s 11 and 39 and lacking the 2p of text for plate no 10]. The hand-coloured plates and text are mostly crisp and clean, tear to alphabetical index and neat tape repair. 255mm, rebound into green cloth with gilt to spine, loosely enclosed are the original green blind stamped boards and part of the original spine strip.
Inscribed on endpaper ‘The Reverend R. Taylor with the Kindest regards Charles G. Hewson. With the bookplate of Richard M.S. Taylor. Epsom Trust plate.
