Carl Ludwig Willdenow | Historia amaranthorum, Zurich, [1790]-1798, contemporary half calf

Carl Ludwig Willdenow

Historia amaranthorum. Zurich: Ziegler; Paris: Tilliard; London: Escher, [1790]-1798

FIRST EDITION, folio (460 x 280mm.), dedication, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates by and after Joh. Rud. Schellenberg, contemporary half calf, edges uncut, binding rubbed

A rare monograph on the amaranths. See next lot for details on Willdenow

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 81; Nissen BBI 2156; Stafleu TL2 17.652

PROVENANCE:

Rev. and Hon. Richard Cavendish Boyle (1812-1886), Huntercombe, Berkshire, son of the Earl and Countess of Cork, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, bookplate