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SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER (1817-1911)
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James
Clark Ross. London: Reeve Brothers, 1844-1860. 3 volumes in 6, large 4° (307 x 242mm.). 513 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by
Walter Hood Fitch and others, 1 hand-coloured lithographic map.
(Repaired hole to blank area of title of first volume, some browning
and light spotting, the last two volumes with blank margins of the
plate slightly affected by damp.) Contemporary non-uniform half calf,
spines gilt (neat repairs to spines and corners).
PROVENANCE:
unidentified armorial bookplate.
FIRST EDITION OF HOOKER'S GREAT EARLY WORK, WITH 'EXQUISITE PLATES' (Rosove), published as three parts in six volumes. Part I is sub-titled 'Flora Antarctica'; part II: 'Flora Novae-Zelandiae' and part III: 'Flora Tasmaniae'. 'The first two volumes, dated respectively 1844 and 1847,... comprised Hooker's original work from the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island (vol.I) and his work plus that of others from Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, and the Kerguelen Islands (vol.II)... The remaining four volumes are largely a compendium of others' botanical work. [Most of the]... exquisite plates were executed by the famous botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892); the coloration was magnificently done' (Rosove). Great Flower Books (1990) p.103; Nissen BBI 928; Rosove 172-1.A1, 172-2.A1, 172-3.A1; Spence 605; Stafleu & Cowan 3,001. (6)
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James
Clark Ross. London: Reeve Brothers, 1844-1860. 3 volumes in 6, large 4° (307 x 242mm.). 513 FINE HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by
Walter Hood Fitch and others, 1 hand-coloured lithographic map.
(Repaired hole to blank area of title of first volume, some browning
and light spotting, the last two volumes with blank margins of the
plate slightly affected by damp.) Contemporary non-uniform half calf,
spines gilt (neat repairs to spines and corners).
PROVENANCE:
unidentified armorial bookplate.
FIRST EDITION OF HOOKER'S GREAT EARLY WORK, WITH 'EXQUISITE PLATES' (Rosove), published as three parts in six volumes. Part I is sub-titled 'Flora Antarctica'; part II: 'Flora Novae-Zelandiae' and part III: 'Flora Tasmaniae'. 'The first two volumes, dated respectively 1844 and 1847,... comprised Hooker's original work from the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island (vol.I) and his work plus that of others from Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, and the Kerguelen Islands (vol.II)... The remaining four volumes are largely a compendium of others' botanical work. [Most of the]... exquisite plates were executed by the famous botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892); the coloration was magnificently done' (Rosove). Great Flower Books (1990) p.103; Nissen BBI 928; Rosove 172-1.A1, 172-2.A1, 172-3.A1; Spence 605; Stafleu & Cowan 3,001. (6)
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