[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed copy of Asa Gray's natural history expedition to Texas-New Mexico in 1849...

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(NATURAL HISTORY) Gray, Asa. PLANTAE WRIGHTIANAE TEXANO-NEO-MEXICANAE: 
an Account of a Collection of Plants Made by Charles Wright, in an 
Expedition from Texas to New Mexico, in the Summer and Autumn of 
1849... Part I [Part II]. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution. 
1852-1853. Lg. 4to. 2 volumes in 1. 146,(2);120pp. Plus 14 full-page 
plates of plant specimens, each with multiple illustrations. Cont. calf 
over marbled boards, extremities somewhat rubbed, but still sound. This 
copy inscribed by Gray on the first blank, "[to] William Whitman Bailey 
– From the Author, August, 1879" and with a brief autograph note signed 
by Gray pasted to the inside front cover.   $750.00
Part of the series: "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," Vol. III, 
Art. 5 and Vol. V, Art. 6. A pioneering botanical study of Texas, New 
Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. The second volume details the results 
of a second trip in 1851-1852. Sabin 28373 & 28374; Meisel. BIBLIOG. OF 
AMERICAN NAT. HIST., Vol. 3: p. 29 & p. 32.

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