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The Magnificent Botanical Library Of D. F. Allen

26 October 2017 • New York

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Sale Number: N09659

49. Les Liliacées … Tome second. Paris: Chez l'Auteur … De l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune, [1804–] 1805

Estimate: 25,000 – 35,000 USD

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50. Les Roses. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1817–1824

Estimate: 225,000 – 325,000 USD

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51. Album de Redouté. Paris: Bossange, [1824]

Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 USD

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52. Collection de beaux bouquets lithographiés par Pointel du Portail, A. Prevost et Mme Leprince, d'après les dessins originaux de P. J. Redouté. Paris: Victor Delarue, [ca. 1850–1855] (title and imprint from front wrapper)

Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 USD

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53. La Botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde; ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la medecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts. Avec des notices instructives puisées dans les auteurs les plus célèbres, contenant la description, le climat, la culture, les proprieties et les vertus propres à chaque plante. Precedé d'une introduction à la botanique ou dictionnaire abrégé des principaux termes employés dans cette science. Paris: by the Author and Didot le jeune, [1770–] 1774 [–1780]

Estimate: 40,000 – 60,000 USD

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54. La Botanique de J. J. Rousseau. Paris: L. E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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55. Florilegium Amplissimum et selectissimum, quo non, tantum varia diversorum florum praestantissimorum et nunquam antea exhibitorum genera, sed et rarae quamplurimae Indicarum plantarum, et radicum formae, ad vivum partibus duabus, quatuor etiam linguis offeruntur et delineantur. Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1641 — Florilegii pars secunda, in qua agitur de praecipius plantis et floribus fibrosas radices habentibus: nec non arboribus speciosis et odoriferis, quibus horti in utraque Germania decorantur. Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1631

Estimate: 18,000 – 25,000 USD

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56. Cistineæ. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose. London: Printed for James Ridgway, July 1825–January 1830

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD

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57. The Florist’s Guide, and Cultivator’s Directory. London: James Ridgway, July 1827– March 1832

Estimate: 18,000 – 25,000 USD

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58. The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, being Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus. London: for the Publisher, 1799 (i.e., 1798–1807)

Estimate: 90,000 – 120,000 USD

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59. Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus; Or, Coloured Plates (With a Catalogue and Concise and Familiar Descriptions of Many Species) of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies and North and South America. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811[-1812]

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

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60. Hortus Nitidissimis omnen per annum superbiens floribus, sive amoenissimorum florum imagines … In publicum edidit Iohannes Michael Seligmann. Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1750 [–1786]

Estimate: 200,000 – 300,000 USD

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