Lot 209
Ravenscroft, Edward James
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
£1,750
Description
Pinetum Britannicum. [London/Edinburgh: Lawson and Sons/ Ravenscroft/ Blackwood & Sons, 1863-1884.] Large folio, 34 hand-coloured plates, parts 1-27 (of 52), contemporary quarter morocco, lacking title-page(s), some dampstaining especially to inner margins, damage and soiling to a few plates, some tears to page edges, covers and spine very worn and soiled with text-block detached; sold not subject to return
Footnote
Note:
The sections collate as follows: 8; 6; 8; 2; 2; 4; 4; 2; 22; 6; 4; 4; 4; 4; 4; 6; 4; 4; 8; 24; 8; 6; 4; 18; 4; 12; 4
[Nissen BBI 1588; Great Flower Books, p.127; Stafleu and Cowan 8685]