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Verlag: London. James Ridgway. 1831-1838, 1831
Anbieter: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, Cirencester, Vereinigtes Königreich
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4 volumes octavo 10 x 6 3/4 inches, VERY HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND in a full heavy crushed morocco with gilt flower tools and two red leather lettering labels. Text and 412 FINE HAND COLOURED BOTANICAL ENGRAVINGS- The second series plates complete.- AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY with clean plates, wide margins and very good colour. Blibliography- Great Flower Books page 77. A very decorative and comprehensive collections of flower engravings. All tall copy- unusual in a fine binding. Robert Sweet (1783 20 January 1835) was an English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist. Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries. He was associated with nurseries at Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea. In 1812 he joined Colvills, the famous Chelsea nursery, and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society. By 1818 he was publishing horticultural and botanical works.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1330511913ISBN 13: 9781330511916
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 430 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1330511913ISBN 13: 9781330511916
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 430 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1330555589ISBN 13: 9781330555583
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Wie neu. Zustand: Wie neu | Seiten: 466 | Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2015
ISBN 10: 1340901048ISBN 13: 9781340901042
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: W. Simkin and R. Marshall; James Ridgway, London, 1823
Anbieter: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
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The British Flower Garden; Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental & Curious Hardy Flowering Plants, Including Annuals, Biennials, & Perennials; With Their Scientific and English Names. [First Series]. London: W. Simkin and R. Marshall, 1823-1829. [With] The British Flower Garden (Series the Second). London: James Ridgway 1831-1838. First Edition. Complete in seven octavo volumes. (9 5/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 245 x 155 mm). With 712 hand-colored engraved plates, some of which are folding, by Weddell, F.W. Smith, and others after E.D. Smith, J. Hart and others. With the rare 16 page "A Monograph on the Subordo V. of Amaryllideae, containing the Narcissineae" by Adrian Hardy Haworth. Found in Second Seeries, Volume I. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards. Calf ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Mild rubbing to edges and corners. Some occasional light toning to text, but plates are vivid and clean. Overall a beautiful set. Sweet (1783-1835), a well-known horticulturalist, fellow of the Linnean Society since 1812. "In 1810 Sweet entered as a partner in the Stockwell nursery, and when that was dissolved in 1815, became foreman to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, & Milne, nurserymen, of Fulham, till 1819, when he entered the service of Messrs. Colvill. While in their employ he was charged with having received a box of plants knowing them to have been stolen from the royal gardens, Kew, but was acquitted after trial at the Old Bailey on 24 Feb. 1824. In 1826 he left the Colvills, and till 1831 occupied himself almost wholly in the production of botanical works, while still cultivating a limited number of plants in his garden at Parson's Green, Fulham" (D.N.B.). Hunt. Nissen, BBI,1923. "After 1826 he devoted himself almost entirely to botanical publications such as the present work. In 1831, he started a second series to this work; after his death in 1835, the publisher, James Ridgway, continued the work until December 1837. " (Christie's). HBS 68538. $9,500.