[Rarebooks] FS: Some of the finest engravings of Cacti ever produced, 1859, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $1000,      Now $850

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 
as 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, generally 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. (#011983)        $850.00

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