Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 428

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BOTANICAL.) Strong, Asa B. The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wild Flowers. 186 hand-colored lithographed plates, not including the frontispieces and pictorial half-titles. 4 volumes. Small 4to, publisher's gilt cloth (volumes 1-3), needs rebinding; and contemporary 1/2 black roan (volume 4), worn; scattered foxing, plates generally clean and bright, very few loose. Volume 4 is supplied from another set. (MMH) New York: Green & Spencer, 1848-50

Additional Details

Very many more plates are seemingly called for by the title pages; however this was an error on the part of the publisher.