Illustrations of Himalayan Plants. Chiefly Selected from Drawings Made for the Late J.F. Cathcart Esq.re of the Bengal Civil Service

by J. D. Hooker, Walter Hood Fitch, Lithographer

$18,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Lowell Reeve, 1855. First edition, first printing. Color lithographic title page plus 24 handcolored lithographic plates highlighted in gum arabic, protected by tissue guards and accompanied by text descriptions. Folio, bound in full green morocco with ornate gold tooling to spine, borders, and turn-ins, all edges gilt, teal endpapers. Near Fine with moderate scuffing and staining to leather. Hinges repaired, 20th

• Printing: first
• Binding: Leather

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