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Folio (470 x 294 mm). Contemporary Russian leather with gilt denteles and border on boards; new spine with raised bands; tooling in panels gilt as is title, author and date; extremities abraded. Edges of covers and corners rubbed and some loss. Decorative tooling in gilt present on inside of boards. Original marble end papers. Collation: [i-xxvii], [1]- 20pp., + plates 1-84, supplement plates 1-4 [2-Index] pp. There two or more pages of text for each plate with Supplement with preceding text pages grouped together. h. Some spotting to preliminary blanks & half-title. There is also some minor light gray spotting on one plate. Plate number I in supplement has small brown off setting from spot on facing page. This is a very scarce large paper copy in fine decorative binding with excellent provenance. This study was issued in parts between 1812 and 1816 (publication date on title page). Plates were from drawings by Hooker and engraved by W. H. E. Edwards.
British Jungermanniae: Being a History and Description, with colored Figures, of each Species of the Genus, and Microscopical Analyses of the Parts.
HOOKER, WILLIAM JACKSON.
London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...; and J. Harding, 1816.
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