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Loddiges, Conrad and Sons.
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description
- The Botanical Cabinet. London: John & Arthur Arch [and others] and C. Loddiges & Sons, [c.1823]-1828
Volumes 9-15 bound in 6 volumes, small 4to (207 x 157mm.), plain engraved titles to all but volume 9, 580 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates (numbered 841-1420), contemporary diced calf gilt, lacking 40 plates from vol.9 and 80 from vol.15, occasional light offsetting of text onto plates, bindings slightly worn
Provenance
[Miss] H.S. Syms, 1840, [Sussex], signature in several volumes; Brighton and Hove Museums have a collection of 20 drawings of Sussex by her in their collections (ref. 101551-70); Miss Mills; thence by descent
Literature
Nissen BBI 2228; Pritzel 5559
Catalogue Note
In this set volumes 9 and 15 are incomplete and have been bound together. At the end of the volume there is also Catalogue of Plants, in the Collection of Conrad Loddiges & Sons, Nurserymen, at Hackney (1826).