2 volumes. vi, 100; [2], 101-200, [4] pp. With 300 hand-colored copper-engraved plates, some partly color-printed and finished by hand, 2 folding; from drawings by J. Bartram, G.D. Ehret, W. Houston, R. Lancade and J.S. Mueller. (folio) 16x10¼, spines tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco labels.
Miller's excellent botany, featuring delicate renderings of notable and at times exotic plants. In his preface, Miller explains that the expenses of production have caused him "...almost from the Beginning...to contract his Plan, and confine it to those Plants only, which are either curious in themselves, or may be useful in Trades, Medicine, &c., including the Figures of such new Plants as have not been noticed by any former Botanists." William Houston supplied drawings of Mexican and Caribbean plants. Plates LXIX, LXX and LXXI misnumbered LXVIII, LXIX and LXX; plate XCIII misnumberd LXXXXIV; plate CLXXIV misnumbered CLXXIII; plate CLXXXVII misnumbered CLXXXV. Dunthorne 209; Nissen 1378. With armorial bookplates of Holland House, and well as those of J. Roy Barrette.
Condition:
Front covers detached, rear joints cracked and tender, spines worn, boards with scuffing and discoloration; occasional light to moderate offsetting to the plates (affecting perhaps a sixth of the plates), else very good.