Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 235

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BOTANICAL.) Bigelow, Jacob. American Medical Botany. 60 plates, either hand-colored engravings or color-printed etchings. 3 volumes in one. Large 8vo, 243x162 mm, contemporary calf with American eagle panel stamp on covers, binding varnished, rebacked retaining original backstrip, top of spine and front joint damaged, cover corners worn; varying foxing and offsetting on plates. 19th-century bookplate of Yale College Library (duplicate). Boston, 1817-20

Additional Details

first edition of the first American botanical color-plate book. Austin 205; Garrison-Morton 1842; Norman 234; Nissen BBI 164; Reese 10. For the binding cf. Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks 12.