May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BOTANICAL.) Pursh, Frederick. Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, A Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. 24 hand-colored engraved plates. Two volumes. 8vo, 220x135 mm, publisher's blue cloth, paper spine labels a little perished, front cover of volume two hanging by a thread. Scattered foxing in the second half of volume two, one plate unevenly trimmed on outside edge. London, 1814

Additional Details

first edition of the first complete flora of America north of Mexico. Erickson, Lewis & Clark 6a and pages 207-8; Nissen 1570; Sabin 66728.