Wallich, Nathaniel PLANTÆ ASIATICÆ RARIORES; OR, DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES OF A SELECT NUMBER OF UNPUBLISHED EAST INDIAN PLANTS. LONDON: TREUTTEL & WÜRTZ, TREUTTEL JUN. & RICHTER, [1829–] 1830–1832 Half-titles to volumes I and III (as issued), 3-page subscribers list, original printed part wrappers bound in upper covers printed with lithographic titles on recto and with smaller format letterpress plate lists mounted on verso, 2 copies of a 4-page prospectus and preliminary list of subscribers bound in between part wrappers in vol. I. Illustration: 295 fine handcolored plates (comprising 294 lithographs drawn on stone by Maxim Gauci [one folding plate numbered 222–223], after Vishnupersaud [114], Gorachand [87], Charles M. Curtis [7], William Griffith [3], and others, 1 engraving by Weddell after Vishnupersaud [numbered 6]), 1 double-page engraved map of India by J. Arrowsmith, with routes of various botanists marked in colors by hand. 12 parts bound in 3 volumes, folio (21 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.; 546 x 368 mm, uncut). Binding: Early twentieth-century half morocco gilt, spines gilt in six compartments, green buckram covers, top edges gilt, by William Brown of Edinburgh. Internally clean and fresh. Some wear to bindings, vol. II upper cover with gouge on right edge and some discoloration at lower edge.
Wallich, Nathaniel PLANTÆ ASIATICÆ RARIORES; OR, DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES OF A SELECT NUMBER OF UNPUBLISHED EAST INDIAN PLANTS. LONDON: TREUTTEL & WÜRTZ, TREUTTEL JUN. & RICHTER, [1829–] 1830–1832 Half-titles to volumes I and III (as issued), 3-page subscribers list, original printed part wrappers bound in upper covers printed with lithographic titles on recto and with smaller format letterpress plate lists mounted on verso, 2 copies of a 4-page prospectus and preliminary list of subscribers bound in between part wrappers in vol. I. Illustration: 295 fine handcolored plates (comprising 294 lithographs drawn on stone by Maxim Gauci [one folding plate numbered 222–223], after Vishnupersaud [114], Gorachand [87], Charles M. Curtis [7], William Griffith [3], and others, 1 engraving by Weddell after Vishnupersaud [numbered 6]), 1 double-page engraved map of India by J. Arrowsmith, with routes of various botanists marked in colors by hand. 12 parts bound in 3 volumes, folio (21 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.; 546 x 368 mm, uncut). Binding: Early twentieth-century half morocco gilt, spines gilt in six compartments, green buckram covers, top edges gilt, by William Brown of Edinburgh. Internally clean and fresh. Some wear to bindings, vol. II upper cover with gouge on right edge and some discoloration at lower edge.
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