[Rarebooks] FS: 2nd Amer. ed. of "The Botanic Garden" (by Erasmus Darwin & others). 1807

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[Darwin, Erasmus and Elihu H. Smith and others]. THEBOTANIC GARDEN. A Poem, In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy ofVegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes. TheSecond American Edition. New York: Printed and sold by T. & J. Swords.1807. Second American ed. 2 parts in 1, each part with a separate title page.xviii,278;144pp. Index of pant names. Illustrated with a copper engravedfrontispiece, 16 copper engraved plates (6 by William Blake, including 4 of thePortland Vase), and a copper engraved folding geologic stratigraphic column.Cont. tree calf, brown calf spine label, hinges & spine a bit rubbed butsound. General title page a bit browned and with an old paper repair to a blankportion (no text loss). Some offset browning to pages facing the plates.        $450.00(trade discount allowed)
AMERICANBIBLIOGRAPHY 1807, #12395.
 
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