Live auction - Lot 696

[Botany]

[LOWE, Edward Joseph; HOWARD, William]

Les plantes à feuillages coloré. Histoire, description, culture, emploi des espèces les plus remarquables pour la décoration des parcs [...]. Deuxième ed. Nouvelle série.

Paris, J. Rothschild, 1872

€ 150 / 250

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8vo: viii-122 pp. (some min. browning and spotting not affecting the pl.).

Cont. quarter green shagreen, gilt title on cloth covers, gilt orn. spine on 4 raised bands (corners rubbed), gilt edges. Good, partly uncut copy.

Second edition, "new" series" of James Rothschild's translation of "Beautiful leaved plants" (1868) by the English botanists Lowe (1825-1900) and Howard. Complete with 60 chromolithographic pls protected by pink tissue guards showing colourful leaves of plants and 60 b/w wood engr. Ref. Cp. Pritzel 5642. - Cp. Nissen (BBI) 1435. - Not in Bn-Opale plus.

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Lot 696

Les plantes à feuillages coloré. Histoire, description, culture, emploi des espèces les plus remarquables pour la décoration des parcs [...]. Deuxième ed. Nouvelle série.

[LOWE, Edward Joseph; HOWARD, William]

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