United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. Botany. Phanerogamia ... With: ... Atlas

by Wilkes Expedition, Asa Gray

$10,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

One of 150 copies of the unofficial issue. Text: 4 , 777, 1 pp. Atlas: 100 engraved plates. 4 pp. 2 vols. 4to text and folio atlas. Modern half russet morocco and cloth covered boards. Heavy foxing to the plates in the atlas, small chip at fore-edge of atlas title, minor dampstaining at lower outer corner of plates, tape repair to final leaf of text. Provenance: University of Chicago ink stamp and blindstamp, deaccession stamp . Haskell 61 and 63;

• Binding: Leather

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