Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service

by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

$17,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Publisher's patterned cloth boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down, floral patterned endpapers. Housed in a modern cloth box. Hooker's second work on Himalayan plants containing some of the most spectacular work of Walter Hood Fitch, arguably the greatest botanical artist of the second half of the 19th century: one of the finest flower books ever produced Jan Lewis . In the eloquent and evocative introduction to the present work, Hooker writes that

• Binding: Hardcover

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