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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Beerthold Seemann | Flora Vitiensis..., 1865-1873

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May 18, 05:10 PM GMT

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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