![SOWERBY, James (1757-1822). English Botany: or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. London: J. Davis for the Author, 1790-[1814]. -- HOOKER, William Jackson. Supplement to the English Botany of the late Sir J.E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby. London: for C.E. Sowerby and others, 1831, 1834.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/NYR/2014_NYR_03400_0172_000(sowerby_james_english_botany_or_coloured_figures_of_british_plants_lon043439).jpg?w=1)
IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
SOWERBY, James (1757-1822). English Botany: or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. London: J. Davis for the Author, 1790-[1814]. -- HOOKER, William Jackson. Supplement to the English Botany of the late Sir J.E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby. London: for C.E. Sowerby and others, 1831, 1834.
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SOWERBY, James (1757-1822). English Botany: or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. London: J. Davis for the Author, 1790-[1814]. -- HOOKER, William Jackson. Supplement to the English Botany of the late Sir J.E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby. London: for C.E. Sowerby and others, 1831, 1834.
39 volumes in 23, 8° (233 x 140mm). 2795 hand-colored engraved plates (2592 in English Botany; 204 in the supplement volumes), a few printed in green or brown, index volume. (Some light spotting, offsetting, or staining.) 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (some light wear, a few joints starting).
FIRST EDITION. "English Botany is of value even to the present day as a work of reference, and as an illustrated flora of our country it has never been surpassed" (Henrey, p.143). Index volume interleaved with hand-written index to correspond with the plates, which are bound out of order and numbered in manuscript. Cleveland Collections 601; Nissen BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.
39 volumes in 23, 8° (233 x 140mm). 2795 hand-colored engraved plates (2592 in English Botany; 204 in the supplement volumes), a few printed in green or brown, index volume. (Some light spotting, offsetting, or staining.) 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (some light wear, a few joints starting).
FIRST EDITION. "English Botany is of value even to the present day as a work of reference, and as an illustrated flora of our country it has never been surpassed" (Henrey, p.143). Index volume interleaved with hand-written index to correspond with the plates, which are bound out of order and numbered in manuscript. Cleveland Collections 601; Nissen BBI 2225; Henrey 1366; Hunt 717.