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SINCLAIR, Isabella [Mrs. Francis, Jr.] Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands. Forty-four Plates Painted in Water-colours and Described. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885.
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SINCLAIR, Isabella [Mrs. Francis, Jr.] Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands. Forty-four Plates Painted in Water-colours and Described. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885.
2° (368 x 268 mm). 44 chromolithographed plates after Sinclair by Leighton Brothers. (Title-page foxed, some occasional pale spotting.) Original gilt-lettered pictorial cloth (gutta percha perished, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. According to H. St. John in Pacific Science, 1954: "This is the first book with colour pictures of Hawaiian flowering plants... Even today it has more colour plates of Hawaiian plants than any other book." "Published in teh form of a typical Victorian 'floral album,' Isabella Sinclair's series of watercolors was by far teh most luxurious guide to Hawaiian flora to have been published up to that time, and FOR SUMPTUOUSNESS IT REMAINS UNSURPASSED" (Don R. Severson, Michael D. Horikawa and Jennifer Saville, Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, Honolulu, 2002, p. 178). Great Flower Books, p.139; Nissen BBI 1848.
2° (368 x 268 mm). 44 chromolithographed plates after Sinclair by Leighton Brothers. (Title-page foxed, some occasional pale spotting.) Original gilt-lettered pictorial cloth (gutta percha perished, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. According to H. St. John in Pacific Science, 1954: "This is the first book with colour pictures of Hawaiian flowering plants... Even today it has more colour plates of Hawaiian plants than any other book." "Published in teh form of a typical Victorian 'floral album,' Isabella Sinclair's series of watercolors was by far teh most luxurious guide to Hawaiian flora to have been published up to that time, and FOR SUMPTUOUSNESS IT REMAINS UNSURPASSED" (Don R. Severson, Michael D. Horikawa and Jennifer Saville, Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, Honolulu, 2002, p. 178). Great Flower Books, p.139; Nissen BBI 1848.