Wallich, Nathaniel Plantae Asiaticae rariores; Or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants. London: Richard Taylor for Treuttel and Würtz, [1829]–1830–1832 3 volumes, folio (21 1/2 x 15 in.; 546 x 381 mm). 295 fine handcolored litographed plates on 294 sheets (plates 222/223 constitute one folding plate) by Maxim Gauci after Vishnupersand, Gorachand, Charles M. Curtis, William Griffith and others, double-page engraved map of India by J. Arrowsmith partially colored in outline, 3-page list of subscribers in vol. 1, half-titles in vols. 1 and 3 only (as usual), table of plates in each volume; light toning to several quires in vols. 1 and 3, plates 31 and 158 toned, minor marginal soiling to plates, chiefly confined to vol. 1, small loss to bottom margin of 3:2E1. Contemporary quarter green morocco over cloth, boards and extremities rubbed, small tear to head of spine of vol. 3.
Wallich, Nathaniel Plantae Asiaticae rariores; Or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants. London: Richard Taylor for Treuttel and Würtz, [1829]–1830–1832 3 volumes, folio (21 1/2 x 15 in.; 546 x 381 mm). 295 fine handcolored litographed plates on 294 sheets (plates 222/223 constitute one folding plate) by Maxim Gauci after Vishnupersand, Gorachand, Charles M. Curtis, William Griffith and others, double-page engraved map of India by J. Arrowsmith partially colored in outline, 3-page list of subscribers in vol. 1, half-titles in vols. 1 and 3 only (as usual), table of plates in each volume; light toning to several quires in vols. 1 and 3, plates 31 and 158 toned, minor marginal soiling to plates, chiefly confined to vol. 1, small loss to bottom margin of 3:2E1. Contemporary quarter green morocco over cloth, boards and extremities rubbed, small tear to head of spine of vol. 3.
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