Alfred Russel Wallace | Palm Trees of the Amazon and their Uses, 1853, first edition, presentation inscription from the inventor of the Wardian Case to painter E.W. Cooke
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July 11, 02:10 PM GMT
Estimate
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Lot Details
Description
Alfred Russel Wallace
Palm Trees of the Amazon and their uses. London: John van Voorst, 1853
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (198 x 123 mm.), 48 lithographed plates by W. Fitch, 4pp. publisher's advertisement bound in at end, original green cloth, yellow endpapers, plate 18 detached and slightly frayed at outer margin, foxing, binding slightly rubbed
RARE. Wallace's first book, of which only two hundred and fifty copies were printed. Although Wallace lost most of his drawings and materials when his ship sank on the homeward voyage in August 1852, his notes and drawings of Amazonian palm trees were rescued.
PROVENANCE:
presented by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), inventor of the Wardian Case, to Edward William Cooke RA FRS (1811-1880), English landscape and marine painter, and gardener, with presentation inscription to front free endpaper: "A picture of Nature | presented to E.W. Cooke | (one of Nature's most devoted admirers) by | N.B.W."; by descent
LITERATURE:
Borba de Moraes p. 933; Nissen BBI 2097
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