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HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785-1865, editor). Botanical Miscellany; containing figures and descriptions of such plants as recommend themselves by their novelty, rarity, or history. London: Curll & Bell (vol.I) or Muir, Gowans, & Co. (vols.II-III) of Glasgow for John Murray, 1830-1833.
3 volumes, 8° (260 x 152mm). Uncut and largely unopened. 153 engraved plates, 53 hand-coloured, of which 2 folding and 29 double-page, by Swan after Hooker and others. (Appreciable spotting to about 36 of the uncoloured plates.) Original purple cloth, letterpress paper labels to spines (spines and some areas of covers faded, labels rubbed). Provenance: Robert de Belder (sold by private treaty); sale Christie's East, New York, 5 June 1997, part of lot 419.
THE DE BELDER COPY: A FINE COMPLETE AND UNSOPHISTICATED SET OF THIS SURPRISINGLY RARE WORK. Only two complete sets are listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years. The work includes a fascinating mixture of plant descriptions together with occasional narratives of plant hunting. The most important series of articles published by Hooker in the Miscellany is probably Richard Wight's 'Illustrations of Indian Botany principally of the Southern parts of the peninsula', which appeared in four installments between November 1830 and August 1833. It is illustrated by 40 fine hand-coloured plates. BM(NH) II, p.871; Great Flower Books (1990) p.103; Nissen BBI 2356; Stafleu & Cowan II, 2999. (3)
3 volumes, 8° (260 x 152mm). Uncut and largely unopened. 153 engraved plates, 53 hand-coloured, of which 2 folding and 29 double-page, by Swan after Hooker and others. (Appreciable spotting to about 36 of the uncoloured plates.) Original purple cloth, letterpress paper labels to spines (spines and some areas of covers faded, labels rubbed). Provenance: Robert de Belder (sold by private treaty); sale Christie's East, New York, 5 June 1997, part of lot 419.
THE DE BELDER COPY: A FINE COMPLETE AND UNSOPHISTICATED SET OF THIS SURPRISINGLY RARE WORK. Only two complete sets are listed as having sold at auction in the past twenty-five years. The work includes a fascinating mixture of plant descriptions together with occasional narratives of plant hunting. The most important series of articles published by Hooker in the Miscellany is probably Richard Wight's 'Illustrations of Indian Botany principally of the Southern parts of the peninsula', which appeared in four installments between November 1830 and August 1833. It is illustrated by 40 fine hand-coloured plates. BM(NH) II, p.871; Great Flower Books (1990) p.103; Nissen BBI 2356; Stafleu & Cowan II, 2999. (3)
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