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Item Details
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| Author: |
Curtis, William |
| Title: |
The Botanical Magazine; Or, Flower-Garden Displayed: In Which the most Ornamental Foreign-Plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours... |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
W. Curtis, et al. |
| Date: |
1793-1804 |
| Item # : |
126576 |
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257 |
| Lot Number |
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20 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Price realized |
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$ 5175 |
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| Description: |
| 14 vols. bound in 7: Vols. I-II, III-IV, V-VI, XIII-XIV, XV-XVI, XVII-XVIII, XIX-XX. Illustrated with 570 copper-engraved botanical plates, all but one hand-colored, several folding; letterpress descriptive text. 9¼x5½, period tree calf, morocco spine labels. |
| William Curtis' marvelous series of hand-colored botanical plates as published in his Botanical Magazine, which he began issuing in 1787, and which was continued by John Sims following Curtis's death in 1799. The earlier volumes at least are later issues, with the plates dated 1786 onward, and the printed titles dated 1793, 1796, 1797, etc. The coloring is bright and vibrant thoughout. The spines are numbered 1-3, 7-10. |
| Condition: |
| Spines worn, joints and edges rubbed, a few joints cracking with front cover of the final volume detached, Vol. 8 (i.e. Vols. XV-XVI) rebacked with modern calf; some minor foxing and soiling within (mostly the earlier volumes), a few insignificant stains, 2 plates detached, still very good or better, most plates clean and fine. |
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