HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, London: Reeve, Benham & Reeve, 1849-51, 3 parts in one volume, 2° (500 x 370mm.), second edition, printed general title with tinted lithographed vignette, part II and III with separate titles, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by W. H. Fitch after Hooker (lacking the list of subscribers, 3 plates lightly browned with narrow white strip to margins, occasional light marginal thumb-soiling), later half morocco, spine gilt (a few stains), g.e. [Nissen BBI 911; Great Flower Books p. 60]

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HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, London: Reeve, Benham & Reeve, 1849-51, 3 parts in one volume, 2° (500 x 370mm.), second edition, printed general title with tinted lithographed vignette, part II and III with separate titles, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates by W. H. Fitch after Hooker (lacking the list of subscribers, 3 plates lightly browned with narrow white strip to margins, occasional light marginal thumb-soiling), later half morocco, spine gilt (a few stains), g.e. [Nissen BBI 911; Great Flower Books p. 60]

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Richard Mabey in The Flowering of Kew describes the instant success of Hooker's Rhododendrons. "The book, when it was finally completed with thirty plates in 1851, received a rapturous reception. The Athenaeum was unstinting in its praise of Joseph: 'That he should have ascended the Himalayas, discovered a number of plants, and that they should be published in an utmost unequalled style of magnificent illustration, in less than eighteen months -- is one of the marvels in our time.'"