Lot 226
  • 226

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Rhododendrons of the Sikkim-Himalaya. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, folio (500 x 360mm.), title with tinted lithographed vignette, 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates (of 30) by Fitch after Hooker, contemporary cloth-backed watered silk with gilt title on upper cover, light spotting, minor wear to binding

Provenance

Presented by the author to Lady Susan Hay, the wife of James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812-1860), Governor-General of India 1848-56; thence by family descent

 

Literature

Great Flower Books, p.60; Nissen BBI 911

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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Catalogue Note

An clean copy of the important and attractive nineteenth-century botanical monograph, one of the results of Hooker's exploration of Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet. The frontispiece shows the 'Rhododendron Dalhousie' in its native locality (see provenance).