Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 401

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BOTANICAL.) Barton, William. A Flora of North America. 102 (of 106) stipple-engraved hand-colored plates, some folding and some printed in colors (lacking 7, 9, 102, 106). Three volumes. 4to, 260x210 mm, modern blue cloth; contents varyingly foxed, dampstained, and offset, more so in volume three. sold as is. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, 1821-23

Additional Details

first edition of the first american flora. Nissen, Botany 84; Bennett, page 9; Reese, American Color Plate Books 11; Pritzel 446; Sitwell, Great Flower Books, page 73; Plesch, page 134; Sabin 3858.