[Rarebooks] fa: FLORA'S DICTIONARY. By a Lady - Botanical Dictionary - Baltimore: 1833

[ArCh]

Listed now, auction ending MONDAY, November 2. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

https://tinyurl.com/y56kr9zj

Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt:] Flora's Dictionary. By a Lady. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1833. Small 4to (26 cm) in original morocco-backed printed boards, all page edges gilt. Rubbing and edge-wear to the boards and spine, bumping and wear to the corners; front inner hinge cracked but firm, one page-gathering a little pulled and protruding slightly from the text block, a few occasional small spots to the leaves; otherwise clean and sound. Loosely laid in are a small botanical specimen and what appears to be a Victorian-era doily cut from paper.

A rather uncommon early edition of this botanical dictionary, first published in 1829; later editions often included plates. Here, the text is interleaved with blank sheets of various colors, presumably for the writing of notes or the mounting of specimens.