SOWERBY (JAMES) AND JAMES EDWARD SMITH English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 40 vol., comprising vol. 1-36 (complete), and supplementary vol. 1-4 (of 5), FIRST EDITION, 2960 hand-coloured engraved plates, general index bound at end of vol. 36, occasional light spotting, a few plates shaved in 2 final vols., main run contemporary light tan diced calf, spines blindstamped and gilt within 6 compartments, g.e., supplements contemporary half calf, extremities lightly rubbed [Henrey 1366; Hunt 717; Nissen BBI 2225], 8vo, for the Author, 1790-1814-[1831-1849] Fußnoten Provenance: Mathew Wilson of Eshton Hall, bookplate in vol. 1-28; his granddaughter the bibliophile Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), bookplates throughout. Her copy of Sowerby's English Fungi is now at Dumbarton Oaks.
SOWERBY (JAMES) AND JAMES EDWARD SMITH English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 40 vol., comprising vol. 1-36 (complete), and supplementary vol. 1-4 (of 5), FIRST EDITION, 2960 hand-coloured engraved plates, general index bound at end of vol. 36, occasional light spotting, a few plates shaved in 2 final vols., main run contemporary light tan diced calf, spines blindstamped and gilt within 6 compartments, g.e., supplements contemporary half calf, extremities lightly rubbed [Henrey 1366; Hunt 717; Nissen BBI 2225], 8vo, for the Author, 1790-1814-[1831-1849] Fußnoten Provenance: Mathew Wilson of Eshton Hall, bookplate in vol. 1-28; his granddaughter the bibliophile Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), bookplates throughout. Her copy of Sowerby's English Fungi is now at Dumbarton Oaks.
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