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Forgotten Books, 2018-10-29. Paperback. New. 1.5228 in x 22.8934 in x 15.1777 in.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Green & Spencer N.Y., 1853. pp.iv, 190 with 47 hand coloured lithographs. Bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt to spine and both boards. Foxing throughout, and some offsetting. Lovely plates. Handsome binding. Some of the plates have multiple images which, accounts for the 70 engravings mentioned on title page.

New York: Strong and Bidwell. Very Good. 1846. First Edition. 3/4 leather. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Volume I - the 1st issue of Asa Strong's celebrated color-plate materia medica and American botanical. This example bound together with the first 44 pages of the short lived "Monthly Floral" color-plate botanical magazine published by Lewis & Brown in 1846. Bound together iIn a 19th century 3/4 leather and marbled paper boards. Strong's work is complete with plates, including hand colored frontis and extra title page, along with 50 hand colored plates: 36 plates with single botanical examples and 14 plates with two examples depicted. Text pages 119 - 122 are repeated, with pages 123 - 127 lacking. The plates to accompany those missing pages (Anacardium; Cashew Nut & Rhodendron Chrysantemum) are present. Index of examples in both Latin and common names appear at rear. The "Monthly Floral" Vol I of 1846 is bound in at rear, starting from title… Read More

New York: J. C. Burdick. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1847. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 137 pages; Original red cloth binding with light soiling, rubbing and wear. Light foxing throughout. Complete with the 48 hand colored plates and colored frontispiece and title page. .

New York: Hull & Spencer, 1855. Hardcover. Good. Later edition. 3 volumes: 1, 3, & 4. Lacking the second volume. 4to. [240 x 180 mm]. Each volume with a coloured frontis and coloured illustrated title-page. Volume 1 with 49 coloured plates inc. frontis and t.p.; Volume 3 with 48 plates, inc. frontis and t.p.; Volume 4 with 47 col. plates, also inc. frontis and t.p.. The title pages call for more plates , but these volume were not issued as such, and no evidence is present of plates being removed. Some plates with tissue-guards. The three volumes bound in the original red cloth stamped with gilt borders and lettering, with floral decorations to the front boards and spines. The gilt dulled in some spots, especially to the spines, where the gilt is completely dulled to black. The corners and covers worn, with chipping to the spines at the ends and along the outside hinges, the books however are still intact, the boards firmly attached, with only a couple plates loose and a couple of weak gatherings.… Read More