[Rarebooks] FS: Duppa's "...Linnaen System of Botany..." w/237 fine hand colored plates. 3 vols. London: 1816

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(BOTANY) Duppa, Richard. THE CLASSES AND ORDERS OF THE LINNAEN SYSTEM OF BOTANY, Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous Plants. London: Printed by T. Bensley... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1816. 8vo. 3 vols. xxvii,(1),196;(197)-400;(401)-549,(103)pp. Illustrated with 240 added copper engraved plates (237 hand-colored, 3 technical plates uncolored), complete. At back of  Volume 3 is a "Dictionary of Botanical Terms," and an index. Cont. straight grained black morocco, gilt spines, extremities a bit rubbed, but all hinges are sound. A.e.g.    $2,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The desirable hand-colored issue. Nissen BBI 566; Johnston 786; Sitwell & Blunt GREAT FLOWER BOOKS p. 56.

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