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Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-06-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Printed for the Publisher by T. Bensley, 1807. First edition. Two parts in one; without the third part comprising the Temple of Flora. Engraved titles and tables, allegorical frontispiece, portrait of Linnaeus, 25 engraved plates of botanists and 91 engraved botanical plates after Ehret, Edwards, Henderson, Miller, Reinagle and others. Without the portrait of Linnaeus in Lapland dress. Large folio (23 x 18 inches). Contemporary olive morocco elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Small area of loss to top of spine, worn at edges, front hinge starting. Some foxing. First edition. Two parts in one; without the third part comprising the Temple of Flora. Engraved titles and tables, allegorical frontispiece, portrait of Linnaeus, 25 engraved plates of botanists and 91 engraved botanical plates after Ehret, Edwards, Henderson, Miller, Reinagle and others. Without the portrait of Linnaeus in Lapland dress. Large folio (23 x 18 inches). The scarce two first parts of… Read More

1799. London, Printed for the Publisher, by T. Bensly, (1799) - 1807 - (1810). Elephant folio. (57,5 x 46,5 cm.). Contemp. full morocco. Profusely gilt spine. Broad blindtooled and gilt borders on covers. All edges gilt. Some neat repairs to part of front hinge. Light wear to lower spine-end. Three letter-press titlepages (main title + Preliminary Observations + title to Part second), 4 engraved calligraphed titlepages. Textleaves, 3 engraved plates, 29 engraved plates of portraits, 94 engraved plates of plants. Some plates and some textleaves with minor scattered small brownspots. Light age-toning to some margins. The scarce two first parts of the highly important work that was to be known as the "Temple of Flora". The third part of what was to become the "Temple" is not present here, but it is evident that Thornton did not have a clear plan for the structure of the work and let it gradually take its own form. The bibliographical complexity of the work bears witness to the fact that "[n]o two… Read More