Lot 172
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, 3 vol., first edition, Edinburgh, 1823-27.
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, 3 vol., first edition, 233 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Swann after drawings by Hooker, R.K. Greville, and others, some folding or double-page, some trimmed, touching imprint or caption, plate 64 split at foldlines and partly detached, a few ff. with tear into text, Royal Colonial Institute bookplates, and several ink-stamps to titles, original cloth, recased, corners worn, edges uncut, [Great Flower Books, p.103; Nissen BBI 920; Stafleu & Cowan 2993], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1823-27.
⁂ First and only edition of one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works, reflecting the extent of active plant introduction into Great Britain and Hooker's part in it.
William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was professor of Botany at Glasgow University and was appointed director of Kew in 1841. He was one of the most important botanists of the Victorian era.
Description
Botany.- Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Exotic Flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, 3 vol., first edition, 233 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Swann after drawings by Hooker, R.K. Greville, and others, some folding or double-page, some trimmed, touching imprint or caption, plate 64 split at foldlines and partly detached, a few ff. with tear into text, Royal Colonial Institute bookplates, and several ink-stamps to titles, original cloth, recased, corners worn, edges uncut, [Great Flower Books, p.103; Nissen BBI 920; Stafleu & Cowan 2993], 8vo, Edinburgh, 1823-27.
⁂ First and only edition of one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works, reflecting the extent of active plant introduction into Great Britain and Hooker's part in it.
William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was professor of Botany at Glasgow University and was appointed director of Kew in 1841. He was one of the most important botanists of the Victorian era.
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