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Lot 335
Sale 5792 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 30, 2020
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[Gardening] Paxton, (Joseph) Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
London: Orr and Smith, 1834-1838. In four volumes (Vols. 1-4 only, of 16). First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 254 hand-colored engraved plates (including 22 double-page plates) and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations; with tissue guards. Modern quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt, green morocco spine labels; marbled edges; later endpapers. Scattered offsetting from plates; text lightly toned. Nissen BBI 2351; [Stafleu & Cowan 7554].