Dec 05, 2013 - Sale 2334

Sale 2334 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BOTANICAL.) Bigelow, Jacob. American Medical Botany. 60 plates, either hand-colored engravings or color-printed etchings. 3 volumes in one. Large 8vo, 258x174 mm, later 19th-century 3/4 red morocco gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; varying foxing, toning, and offsetting throughout, ink accession number on verso of titles, blank portion of Volume 1 title excised and crudely restored, New Bedford Free Public Library rubberstamps on scattered text leaves (released). Boston, 1817-20

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first edition of the first American botanical color-plate book. Austin 205; Garrison-Morton 1842; Norman 234; Nissen BBI 164; Reese 10.