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Lot 59
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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400
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$313
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Lot Description
[MURRAY, Charlotte, Lady]. The British Garden. A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous, or Cultivated in the Climate of Great-Britain. Bath: S. Hazard, 1799.
2 volumes, 8vo (ca 222 x 138mm). (Occasional minor foxing.) Contemporary plain brown cloth, with old hand-lettered spine labels, uncut and partially unopened (spine a little sunned, minor wear with a few breaks to cloth along joints, labels chipped and darkened). Provenance: William Granville Eliot (armorial bookplates); E. W. W. James (pencil signatures); Norman Douglas Simpson (bookplate in Vol I).
FIRST EDITION. Henry 512 and p. 584; ESTC T99214. VERY RARE: According to online records no copies of the first edition have appeared at auction in at least the past 45 years.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil