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SOWERBY, JAMES - SMITH, JAMES EDWARD (7). English Botany, or, Colored Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth. The second edition, arranged according to the Linnaean method... 2nd edition. London (Richard and JohnTaylor) (1832)-1840. Not complete.

8vo (215x130 mm.). 1571 hand-coloured engraved plates, some folding (occasional foxing throughout, sometimes more, some offsetting, a few original flowers inset, vol. V with some marginal dampstains together with worming to edges, some occasional notes with pencil, text with similar conditions).
Worn and partly damaged contemporary half calf bindings, gilt spines with green labels, a few joints split, vol. V with damaged spine and dampstained covers, endpapers dampstained). Bookplate of A. W. Clifford. Some pencil notes on inside of cover to vol. I. 7 volumes.

Collation: I. v, (1 blank), 7-87, (2) pp. 221 plates, II. (4), 85 pp. (2) ll. 205 plates, III. (2), 105, (2) pp. 217 plates, IV. (2), 81, (2) pp. 190 plates, V. (2), 126, (1) pp. 248 plates, VI. (2), 106, (1) pp. 231 plates, VII. iv, 132 pp. (2) ll. 259 plates.

Nissen, BBI 2225. Issued by James de Carle Sowerby (vol 1-2) and Ch. Johnson. The complete run of this second edition should be 12 volumes with 2580 plates.
Second edition of the so called ´short edition´ (see preface of this edition) of the famous English botanical study with all in the description presented plates. The important and wide ranged botanical study about the plants of England was published over a period of 6 decades and was enriched by descriptions by Sowerby´s colleague Smith.
James Sowerby (1757-1822), English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist.

Provenance: The consigners´ family is related to James Sowerby (1757-1822) through their great grandmother, who was the daughter Charlotte Ann Sowerby (Lottie), later married Bryant. The family´s grandmother later bought this work in London in the 1920´s.

Auktionsnummer:

6192

Datum:

2019-06-14