[Rarebooks] FS: THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, 1797-1815, with 808 Hand-Colored plates (68 folding/double)

[Charles Agvent]

ANDREWS, Henry C. THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, FOR NEW, AND RARE PLANTS. 
CONTAINING COLOURED FIGURES OF SUCH PLANTS, AS HAVE NOT HITHERTO 
APPEARED IN ANY SIMILAR PUBLICATION... London: T. Bensley for the 
author, 1797-1815. First Edition. Twelve large quarto volumes (8-1/2" x 
10-1/2") volumes consisting of volumes 1-6 bound in full green morocco 
leather gilt with all edges gilt and volumes 5-10 in half brown morocco 
with marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; 
marbled endpapers. A complete 10-volume set made up from two different 
incomplete sets resulting in duplicate volumes of 5 and 6 resulting in a 
total of 12 volumes. Illustrated with 664 plates with 64 folding/double, 
in the complete set, plus 144 plates with 4 folding/double bringing the 
grand total to 808 plates with 68 folding/double. Duplicate text for 
plate 291 with no text for plate 290. Started as a rival to Curtis's THE 
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, this magazine featured more new plants than its 
rival and larger and generally better quality plates. It also differed 
in making a contribution of lasting importance to the literature of 
botany and horticulture by providing records and means of identification 
of a great diversity of beautiful and interesting plants, many of them 
new to science. The text of the fifth volume is by John Kennedy (the 
author's father-in-law), the sixth volume by A. H. Haworth, and the last 
four volumes by George Jackson. DUNTHORNE 8: "A fine and interesting 
work of distinct individuality and character"; GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, page 
83; NISSEN 2382; PRITZEL 474. Truly magnificent hand-colored plates and 
quite scarce. Fairly large copy in comparison to others sold in the 
recent past. Occasional minor foxing, toning, or off-setting; some light 
pencil notes/corrections to some leaves. In all, rather clean and 
attractive examples of these volumes with the plates generally bright 
and vivid with offsetting to text. Rubbing and light scuffs to bindings. 
Near Fine.

A beautifully illustrated and important horticulture title providing 
records and means of identification of a great diversity of beautiful 
and interesting plants, many of them from Australia and South Africa and 
many new to science. (#021670)        $35,000

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