Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnæi. An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus

by John Miller, c., Johann Sebastian Müeller

$36,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Contemporary full calf with roll-tooled gilt foliate, gilt-patterned board edges, seven raised bands forming eight compartments on a richly gilt-patterned spine, gilt-lettered red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment and brown morocco in third, all edges gilt and sprinkled red Excellent example of Miller's prodigious Linnæan herbal with plates in two states. An immense work . . . illustrated in a style of unprecedented elegance. Lettsom Miller's

• Binding: Leather

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