Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Maund, Benjamin (1790-1863)
The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants.

London: Baldwin, Cradock, Joy, & Griffiths, [and] Simpkin & Marshall, [1825-1850].

Eight large octavo volumes bound in period uniform half red morocco with marbled paper boards, engraved titles in each volume, illustrated with 192 hand-colored plates depicting 768 different plants (four per page; twenty-four illustrations per volume), some occasional foxing to some title pages, tissue guards present, contents quite good, bindings a bit dry and rubbed, all boards attached, 9 x 7 in. (8)