The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I
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May 18, 05:10 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Berthold Seemann
Flora Vitiensis: a description of the plants of the Viti or Fiji Islands: an account of their history, uses, and properties... with one hundred plates by Walter Fitch, F.L.S. London: L. Reeve and Co., 1865-1873
4to (316 x 247 mm.), lithographed portrait frontispiece, 100 lithographed plates (including 99 hand-coloured lithographed plates and lithographed map of the Fiji Islands, hand-coloured in outline), contemporary brown half morocco, spine with raised bands in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, light scattered spotting, spine and boards slightly sunned, extremities slightly bumped
LITERATURE:
Great Flower Books, p. 76