Advert Description
Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Vol. V of the Third Series, or vol. LXXV of the whole work; 69 engraved and finely, originally excellently hand-coloured plates with vibrant colours, 3 folded, and with accompanying text. This vol. contains the plants (plates and descriptions) numbered 4417-4485.
No binding; loose; title page, dedication leaf and indexes on English (common) names, and Latin names are all accounted for. Index pages loose. The book itself is complete.
* Curtis's Botanical Magazine is an illustrated publication which began in 1787. The longest running botanical magazine, it is widely referred to by the name Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
Each of the issues contains a description, in formal yet accessible language, and is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators. Observations on the culture of each species are by John Smith.
William Jackson Hooker (1785 – 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1831 it was placed under state ownership as botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium.
** This lot is part of an important collection that will be auctioned in the coming months through the Catawiki Collection Service. If you also need assistance to sell your collection at auction, ask for our terms directly at this seller's account!
#bookspartnership 67370709
