Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 190

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(BOTANICAL.) Jacob Bigelow. American Medical Botany. 60 color-printed engraved and stone-etched plates, some hand-finishing. 3 volumes in 1. 8vo, 10¼x7 inches, late-nineteenth century half morocco rebacked; first title-page strangely clipped and repaired, heavy foxing and offset, occasional deaccessioned ink stamp of the New Bedford, Massachusetts Free Public Library (not on plates). "The first botanical work published in America" - Reese, Stamped with a National Character 10. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1820
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