Botany.- [Curtis (William)] The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 1 and 2 only in 1 vol., 72 hand-coloured engraved plates, Index f. to each vol., vol. 2 lacking title, text f. facing plate 8 with portion of loss, the occasional stain, some light offsetting, foxing, lightly browned throughout, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, covers quite worn, Fry and Couchman for W. Curtis, 1787 § Jaufret (L.F.) Visits to the Menagerie and the Botanical Garden at Paris: Being an Introduction to Natural History and Botany, for the Instruction of Young Persons, folding engraved frontispiece defective with loss, 3 plates, of which 2 folding, 4pp. advertisements at end, early ownership name of Charlotte Trebeck to front free endpaper, K3 loss to lower blank corner, M6 small hole affecting couple letters, trimmed at head a couple times touching headline, some light browning and offsetting, foxing to plates and scattered throughout, original red roan-backed boards, small loss to spine ends, worn, for R. Phillips, 1804; and others natural history, including one on British Birds with hand-coloured plates, 8vo et infra (5)
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