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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 44: or Flower-Garden Displayed
by John Sims
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Very good copy of Volume XLIV (44) or Second of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1817.
With 71 (of 82) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1860-1941). Missing 11 plates: 1885, 1885*, 1886, 1901-1906, 1916, 1937.
Copperplate engravings after an unknown artist, a few engraved by Weddell.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the rhododendron, dragon fruit, squirting cucumber, zebra plant, perfumed spider lily, chalice vine, alpinia, hibiscus, purple African nightshade, etc. With a few species of orchids including Phaius, Ophrys and Neotinea.
John Sims (1749-1831) was an English physician and botanist. Born in Canterbury and educated at the Quaker school in Burford, Oxfordshire, he went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He became the first editor of the Botanical Magazine after the death of William Curtis in 1799, and edited the magazine from 1801 to 1826.
Contemporary quarter leather binding dry and flaking, spine with five raised bands, chipped orange and burgundy leather title labels, gilt decoration, marble boards, book block solid. All botanical plates bright and clean with vibrant hand colour, a few with slight spotting, dust at the edges. One foldout plate (1884) with repaired tear outside the plate mark.
With the famous decorative bookplate with skull, rococo cartouche, books and flowers of Kenneth Rae, a director at Cobden Sanderson publishing house, engraved by British artist Rex Whistler on front endpaper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo371
- Title
- Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 44
- Author
- John Sims
- Illustrator
- Unknown
- Format/Binding
- Quarter leather and marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sherwood, Neely & Jones
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1817
- Size
- Octavo, 24 x 15cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Botanical Magazine, John Sims, Rex Whistler, botanical art, copperplate, engraving, handcoloured, garden flower, gardening, exotic, plant
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botany;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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