[Rarebooks] FS: Engelmann's CACTACAE from Emory's Survey, some of the finest engravings of Cacti ever made, 1859

[Charles Agvent]

ENGELMANN, George. CACTACAE OF THE BOUNDARY from UNITED STATES AND 
MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY UNDER THE ORDER OF LIETU. COL. W. H. EMORY. 
[Washington]: [Government Printing Office], [1859]. First Edition. 
Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-7/8") in a black faux-morocco album folder. Issued a 
the first part of the second volume of Emory's UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN 
BOUNDARY SURVEY, this is the preferred second issue with the six pages 
of corrections at the end and is complete with 78 pages of text and 76 
steel-engraved plates of cacti including the important "View Along the 
Gila." Engelmann was the great American authority on cacti, and many of 
these engravings are the finest ever made of these plants. Mostly light 
and scattered foxing. A dampstain, mostly quite faint, affects a dozen 
or so plates at the bottom portion, but for the most part the effect is 
negligible. The last two plates, both of seeds, have creases with the 
final plate the worst having a tear with no loss. Mostly light and 
scattered foxing. A dampstain, mostly quite faint, affects a dozen or so 
plates at the bottom portion, but for the most part the effect is 
negligible. The last two plates, both of seeds, have creases with the 
final plate the worst having a tear with no loss. Overall Very Good and 
quite uncommon when complete. 		$1,000.00

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