A Monograph on the Genus Camellia,

by Saml. Curtis ... the whole from Original Drawings by Clara Maria Pope by Samuel Curtis, Clara Maria Pope

$65,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Bound to style in full straight-grain green morocco, spine lettered and tooled gilt, chocolate-coloured endpapers Curtis's rare and impressive work on Camellias: the first monograph on the subject and considered by Great Flower Books to be the finest of all the great Camellia books and among the most impressive and desirable of all illustrated botanical books. Samuel Curtis, a floriculturalist, was the first cousin of William Curtis, founder of the Botanical

• Binding: Leather

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