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Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$600 -
800
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$1,152
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. ANDREWS, James and Louisa Anne TWAMLEY. Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre. London: Charles Tilt, n.d. [before 1837].
Small folio. Hand-color lithographed additional half-title, 11 hand-color lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic. (Light interior spotting, mainly to title-page). Original green cloth gilt stamped with ornamental vase of flowers on both covers, spine gilt-stamped and lettered, all edges gilt (some staining to upper cover, rebacked preserving original spine).
FIRST EDITION. Louisa Anne Twamley (1812-1895) was an Anglo-Australian writer and illustrator, and one of the earliest photographers in Australia. Dunthorne 13; Nissen BBI 35
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
This lot is located in Chicago.