Botany.- Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis, 5 vol., reissue of the

Botany.- Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis, 5 vol., reissue of the second edition, 659 hand-coloured engraved plates on 647 leaves, occasional foxing and offsetting, contemporary green half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, a little rubbed, t.e.g., [Nissen BBI 440; Stafleu & Cowan 1286], folio, 1835. *** A reissue of the second much enlarged edition. The second edition was published from 1817-1828. "Henry Bohm took over the remaining copies of this second edition and issued them in 1835 with new title-pages carrying the date 1835" (Stafleu & Cowan 1286). The first three volumes contain the original 432 plates, but the text rewritten by Hooker; the final two volumes are entirely new with plates mostly from drawings by Hooker, together with his own descriptions. Provenance: George Claridge Druce (1850-1932, bookplate). Druce was a botanist, pharmacist and mayor of Oxford.

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