
Auction Closed
November 29, 03:25 PM GTNN
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen
Medicinal Plants: being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties, and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value... the plates by David Blair, F.L.S. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1880
4 volumes, 8vo (232 x 162mm.), 306 hand-coloured lithographed plates (some double-page, many heightened with gum arabic), 2 in-text plain plates (in volume 1 and volume 4), contemporary green half morocco, spines with raised bands in five compartments, spines gilt-lettered, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, some pencil annotations in a contemporary hand, light scattered spotting, extremities slightly browned, some light offsetting, a few captions shaved at upper margins (not affecting illustrations), top edges slightly dust-soiled, extremities slightly rubbed
LITERATURE:
Great Flower Books, p. 49; Nissen BBI 137; Stafleu TL2 431
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