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[EMPSON, Charles]. The Book of Rare Exotics, Flowers & Fruit, With popular Botanical Descriptions, selected from all available sources and personal observations, made during a long residence in Tropical Climates by The Author of "Narratives of South America"... [ca. 1830s-40s]
2o (499 x 355 mm overall). Lithographic title (on front pastedown) and 31 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS, each approximately 392 x 258 mm, all but the first (of a floral wreath) mounted on card, numbered [1-30] and titled in manuscript on mounts, bound irregularly (few chips to mounts, occasional adhesion from tissue guards). Contemporary half morocco (front cover detached, worn). Provenance: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, gift of Albert Cameron Burrage (bookplate dated 1931).
A VERY FINE SET OF WATERCOLORS. Empson was a specialist on South American plants, as exemplified by many of the subjects here. Seven lithographic reprints of his somewhat obscure manuscript descriptions of the plants are here laid-in. A similar set of 100 of Empson's watercolors was sold at Sotheby's Monaco, 12 December 1984, lot 3341. Empson's Narratives of South America; illustrating Manners, Customs. and Scenery: containing also numerous facts in Natural History was published for the author by William Edwards in 1836 (Abbey Travel 702; Sabin 22548). Another privately published book, Antiquarian Miscellany... was published in 1838.
2o (499 x 355 mm overall). Lithographic title (on front pastedown) and 31 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS, each approximately 392 x 258 mm, all but the first (of a floral wreath) mounted on card, numbered [1-30] and titled in manuscript on mounts, bound irregularly (few chips to mounts, occasional adhesion from tissue guards). Contemporary half morocco (front cover detached, worn). Provenance: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, gift of Albert Cameron Burrage (bookplate dated 1931).
A VERY FINE SET OF WATERCOLORS. Empson was a specialist on South American plants, as exemplified by many of the subjects here. Seven lithographic reprints of his somewhat obscure manuscript descriptions of the plants are here laid-in. A similar set of 100 of Empson's watercolors was sold at Sotheby's Monaco, 12 December 1984, lot 3341. Empson's Narratives of South America; illustrating Manners, Customs. and Scenery: containing also numerous facts in Natural History was published for the author by William Edwards in 1836 (Abbey Travel 702; Sabin 22548). Another privately published book, Antiquarian Miscellany... was published in 1838.