Botanical plates from Flora Londinensis
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BOTANICAL PLATES FROM FLORA LONDINENSIS. (CURTIS, WILLIAM, publ.). 20 disbound hand-coloured engraved plates from Flora Londinensis (1777-98).
Folio. C. 470 x 280 mm. Light foxing. Short tears in left-hand edges.
Together with c. 200 loose text-leaves.
The work was published in 6 volumes, with a total of 435 plates by botanical artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards and William Kilburn.
Plates no. 56, 118, 145, 152, 158, 190, 248, 264, 272, 277, 279 and 326. Unnumbered plates (Germanium cicularium, Hypereicum pulchrum, Hieracum umbellatum, Cerastium aquaticum, Caerophyllum temulum, Caucalis anthriscus, chenopodium album and Pelora,
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