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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William Jowit Titford | Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus, 1811, 6 parts in 1 volume

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

May 18, 05:10 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

William Jowit Titford


Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus. London: C. Stower and Newman for the author, 1811 [-1812]


6 parts in 1 volume, 4to (281 x 224 mm.), hand-coloured etched vignette on dedication leaf, 17 hand-coloured engraved plates, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece (bound after engraved plates), contemporary rough calf, blind tooled border, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco label to spine, sprinkled edges, scattered spotting (affecting text leaves and Plate 8), dampstain to p. 29, upper joint starting to crack


LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 306; Great Flower Books, p. 78; Nissen BBI 1968; Pritzel 9369


PROVENANCE:

Ownership inscriptions of James Smith to front free endpaper and title-page

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