The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II
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November 29, 03:25 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
Griffith Hughes
The natural history of Barbados. London: Printed for the author, 1750
FIRST EDITION, folio (415 x 260mm.), dedication leaf, list of subscribers, folding engraved map, engraved head-pieces, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates, by Mynde and G. Bickham after G.D. Ehret and others, contemporary calf, some spotting and browning, covers worn and repaired, rebacked
This book "is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History" (Hunt). The zoological and botanical plates are each dedicated to a patron or subscriber: large paper copies were supplied to about a fifth of the thousand or so subscribers to Hughes' project.
LITERATURE:
Great Flower Books, p. 60; Hunt 536; McGill/Wood, p. 393; Nissen BBI 950; Sabin 33582