Lot 207
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, 2 vol. only (of 3), Edinburgh, 1823[-27].
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, 2 vol. only (of 3), first edition, 173 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 233), of which c.47 double-page or folding, lacking half-titles and title and preliminaries to vol. 2, plates sometimes trimmed, affecting caption or with occasional slight loss of image, some light offsetting and minor soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title, few shelfmarks or ink-stamps to text leaves, some faint cockling where library ink-stamp removed to verso of plates, modern green half morocco, library label to upper covers, ink-stamp to lower-edge, t.e.g., [Nissen BBI 920], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1823[-27].
*** The second volume incorporates some plates from the lacking third volume. The plates present are numbers 1-172, and the additional plate 163*.
Description
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, 2 vol. only (of 3), first edition, 173 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 233), of which c.47 double-page or folding, lacking half-titles and title and preliminaries to vol. 2, plates sometimes trimmed, affecting caption or with occasional slight loss of image, some light offsetting and minor soiling, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title, few shelfmarks or ink-stamps to text leaves, some faint cockling where library ink-stamp removed to verso of plates, modern green half morocco, library label to upper covers, ink-stamp to lower-edge, t.e.g., [Nissen BBI 920], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1823[-27].
*** The second volume incorporates some plates from the lacking third volume. The plates present are numbers 1-172, and the additional plate 163*.