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WILLIAM CURTIS (1746-1799)
Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London. London: for the author and B. White, [1775]-1777-1798. 2 volumes comprising 6 fascicules bound in 3, 2° (461 x 290mm). 2 title-pages, engraved vignette on that of vol. I, 2 ll. of subscribers, 432 hand-coloured plates after Sydenham Edwards, William Kilburn, James Sowerby and others. (Preliminary leaves in all vols creased affecting the first plate in each, dedication in vol. I lightly unevenly browned, occasional light creasing browning, spotting and offsetting, 4 plates more heavily spotted or stained, 3 plates and 1 text leaf with paper repairs to versos, one plate with two tiny marginal holes, one plate cropped at foot just into image, a few plates in vol. II with an irregularly wiped plate-tone.) Contemporary half calf (worn, covers detached, extremities heavily rubbed). Provenance: Charlotte Carnegie (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM CURTIS'S IMPRESSIVE BOTANICAL RECORD, with the first issue of the title-page of volume I. Curtis was director at the Chelsea Physic Garden before establishing his botanical garden, first at Bermondsey, then later at Lambeth Marsh and Brompton. He cultivated some 6,000 species from all over the world. Bound at the end of this copy is Curtis' 6pp. A Catalogue of Certain Plants, growing wild, chiefly in the environs of Settle, Yorkshire [?London: 1782.] and his 4pp. General Observations on the advantage which may result from the introduction of the seeds of our best grasses [London: Botanic-garden, Lambeth Marsh, 1787]. This latter was separately published with a plate, but is often found, as here, bound at the end of Flora Londinensis without the illustration. Bradley I, 395; Henrey 595 and 742; Hunt 650; Nissen BBI 440; Stafleu and Cowan 1286.
Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the Environs of London. London: for the author and B. White, [1775]-1777-1798. 2 volumes comprising 6 fascicules bound in 3, 2° (461 x 290mm). 2 title-pages, engraved vignette on that of vol. I, 2 ll. of subscribers, 432 hand-coloured plates after Sydenham Edwards, William Kilburn, James Sowerby and others. (Preliminary leaves in all vols creased affecting the first plate in each, dedication in vol. I lightly unevenly browned, occasional light creasing browning, spotting and offsetting, 4 plates more heavily spotted or stained, 3 plates and 1 text leaf with paper repairs to versos, one plate with two tiny marginal holes, one plate cropped at foot just into image, a few plates in vol. II with an irregularly wiped plate-tone.) Contemporary half calf (worn, covers detached, extremities heavily rubbed). Provenance: Charlotte Carnegie (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM CURTIS'S IMPRESSIVE BOTANICAL RECORD, with the first issue of the title-page of volume I. Curtis was director at the Chelsea Physic Garden before establishing his botanical garden, first at Bermondsey, then later at Lambeth Marsh and Brompton. He cultivated some 6,000 species from all over the world. Bound at the end of this copy is Curtis' 6pp. A Catalogue of Certain Plants, growing wild, chiefly in the environs of Settle, Yorkshire [?London: 1782.] and his 4pp. General Observations on the advantage which may result from the introduction of the seeds of our best grasses [London: Botanic-garden, Lambeth Marsh, 1787]. This latter was separately published with a plate, but is often found, as here, bound at the end of Flora Londinensis without the illustration. Bradley I, 395; Henrey 595 and 742; Hunt 650; Nissen BBI 440; Stafleu and Cowan 1286.
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