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Auction Closed
November 29, 03:25 PM GTNN
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
Historia amaranthorum. Zurich: Ziegler; Paris: Tilliard; London: Escher, [1790]-1798
FIRST EDITION, folio (460 x 280mm.), dedication, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Joh. Rud. Schellenberg, contemporary half calf, edges uncut, binding rubbed
A rare monograph on the amaranths. See next lot for details on Willdenow
LITERATURE:
Great Flower Books, p. 81; Nissen BBI 2156; Stafleu TL2 17.652
PROVENANCE:
Rev. and Hon. Richard Cavendish Boyle (1812-1886), Huntercombe, Berkshire, son of the Earl and Countess of Cork, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, bookplate
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