Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 9,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FIRST EDITION OF BOTH PARTS(NATURAL HISTORY.) Gronovius, Johannes Fridericus. Flora Virginica Exhibens Plantas Quas V.C. Johannes Clayton in Virginia. [1], [4], 128, [6]; [1], 129-206, [4]. 2 parts in one. bound with:<> Gronovius. Index Supellectilis Lapideae.<> [1], 29 pages. 8vo, later morocco gilt by Birdsall, backstrip a bit faded; trimmed with some loss, scattered foxing, preliminary leaf remargined along fore-edge with some loss, title to part one with a repaired tear and small repaired hole; bookplate and inscription of William Borlase on the front free endpaper. first edition.<> Sabin 28923; Alden 739/135; Pritzel 3607; Hunt 571; British Museum Natural History II: page 739 (1904).<\t>Leiden, 1739-43; [1740]
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important work of natural history using binomial nomenclature and preceding linnaeus' species plantarum of 1753.<