WIGHT, ROBERT. Spicilegium Neilgherrense or a selection of Neilgherry plants. Madras: for the author, printed by the Spectator Press (vol.I) or P.R.Hunt at the American Mission Press (vol.II), [1846]-1851. 2 vols., 4to, original brown cloth, red leather lettering-piece on spines, by the American Mission Press bindery (with tickets), slight bumping and scuffing to extremities, joints a trifle weak. 196 hand-colored lithographed plates, 7 folding, by Dumphy after Rungiah, Govindoo and (?)others, some plates with labels pasted-on, others numbered in manuscript. A fine copy of a rare work, probably limited to no more than 100 copies, being a selection of plates from Wight's Icones Plantarium Indiae Oreintalis, but with the plates hand-colored. Nissen BBI 2142; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 17.580 -- And another work by Wight, 3 vols., an incomplete copy of his Illustrations of Indian Botany, cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 17.579. (5)