[Rarebooks] fs: Maund. Botanic Garden (plates)

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(No. 8712 )  Maund, B[enjamin]. THE BOTANIC GARDEN; CONSISTING OF HIGHLY 
FINISHED REPRESENTATIONS OF HARDY ORNAMENTAL FLOWERING PLANTS, CULTIVATED IN 
GREAT BRITAIN; WITH THEIR NAMES, CLASSES, ORDERS, HISTORY, QUALITIES, 
CULTURE, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS (VOL. XIII ONLY).
London: Groombridge, [1851?]. Leather, Octavo, Colored plates. Very Good.
      Contains 96 hand-colored engraved plates depicting four flowers to a 
plate. Bound in contemporary green calf with ribbed and gilt-ornamented 
spine, red title blocks on spine, blind and gilt border rules on both 
boards, and dark brown endpapers. Rubs to extremities, splitting along 
bottom half of upper joint, lacking a preliminary (likely blank) leaf 
following front free endpaper. Some mild scattered foxing inside. Hinges 
sound.    $150.00
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