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Curtis, William.
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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Flora Londinensis: Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London. London: Printed and sold by the author, 1777-1798
- paper
First edition, 2 volumes bound in 4, folio (465 x 284mm.), first title with engraved vignette, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, 432 hand-coloured engraved plates, early nineteenth-century half calf, [Henrey 595; Nissen BBI 439], final leaf in vol.1 part 2 repaired, bindings rebacked
Catalogue Note
Although Curtis's intention was to catalogue wild flowers growing in a ten-mile radius of London, the work eventually came to encompass specimens growing in the south of England generally.