Beschreibung:

Sweet (Robert), Geraniaceae. The Natural of Gerania, illustrated by coloured figures and descriptions; comprising the numerous and beautiful mule-varieties cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, with directions for their treatment, volumes 1 & 2 only, printed for James Ridgway, 1820-22 & 1822-24, 200 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates by J. Watts after E.D. Smith, together with part of volume 3 bound in at the end of the second volume, without title page, but containing 36 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, the engravings numbered 1-236, light oval inkstamp of the Botanic Garden Cambridge dated 15 March 1945 to upper outer corner of several plates and to endpapers of both volumes, bookplate removed from front pastedown, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 2) Nissen BBI 1926. Sweet published five volumes in total of his Geraniaceae between 1820 and 1830, containing a total of 501 coloured plates.