Lot 106
Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Niger Flora, first edition, 1849.
Hammer Price: £400
Description
Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Niger Flora, or, an enumeration of the plants of western tropical Africa, collected by the late Dr.Theodore Vogel..., first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, lithographed plate with 2 views, map and 43 lithographed plates (numbered to 50, 7 folding), without publisher's catalogue, some foxing, original cloth, unopened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, upper cover marked, spotting, new endpapers, [Nissen 926], 8vo, 1849.
⁂ Rare, Hooker undertook the editing and publication following the death of Vogel.
Description
Hooker (Sir William Jackson) Niger Flora, or, an enumeration of the plants of western tropical Africa, collected by the late Dr.Theodore Vogel..., first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, lithographed plate with 2 views, map and 43 lithographed plates (numbered to 50, 7 folding), without publisher's catalogue, some foxing, original cloth, unopened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, upper cover marked, spotting, new endpapers, [Nissen 926], 8vo, 1849.
⁂ Rare, Hooker undertook the editing and publication following the death of Vogel.