Title: Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms Author: Sowerby, James Place: London Publisher: J. Davis and R. Wilks, for the author Date: 1797; 1799; 1803; & 1809 Description: 3 volumes plus Supplement bound in 2 volumes. Descriptive text plus 440 hand-colored copperplate engravings on 436 sheets. (4to) 12¼x8, later half green calf, marbled boards, morocco title labels, all edges marbled. First Edition. James Sowerby was the paterfamilias of a gifted family of British botanical and natural science illustrators whose members amassed an impressive record of achievements spanning three generations. Nissen 1874. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines a bit faded; plates 1-240 have the plate numbers repeated in pencil in the upper margin, occasional light to moderate foxing to plates but overall near fine. Item number: 184480
Title: Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms Author: Sowerby, James Place: London Publisher: J. Davis and R. Wilks, for the author Date: 1797; 1799; 1803; & 1809 Description: 3 volumes plus Supplement bound in 2 volumes. Descriptive text plus 440 hand-colored copperplate engravings on 436 sheets. (4to) 12¼x8, later half green calf, marbled boards, morocco title labels, all edges marbled. First Edition. James Sowerby was the paterfamilias of a gifted family of British botanical and natural science illustrators whose members amassed an impressive record of achievements spanning three generations. Nissen 1874. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines a bit faded; plates 1-240 have the plate numbers repeated in pencil in the upper margin, occasional light to moderate foxing to plates but overall near fine. Item number: 184480
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