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HOOKER (WILLIAM JACKSON) and ROBERT KAYE GREVILLE
Icones Filicum: Ad eas potissimum species illustrandas destinatae... Figures and Descriptions of Ferns, Principally As Have Been Altogether Unoticed by Botanists, or as Have Not Yet Been Correctly Figured, 2 vol.

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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HOOKER (WILLIAM JACKSON) and ROBERT KAYE GREVILLE

Icones Filicum: Ad eas potissimum species illustrandas destinatae... Figures and Descriptions of Ferns, Principally As Have Been Altogether Unoticed by Botanists, or as Have Not Yet Been Correctly Figured, 2 vol., first edition, 240 hand-coloured engraved plates by J. Swan after Greville (one folding, all with paper guards), title and dedication leaf in volume one creased, blindstamp on titles, neat early ink annotation on a few text leaves, contemporary green half morocco, g.e., worn, one cover detached [Nissen BBI 929; Stafleu TL2 3002], folio (425 x 260mm.), London, Paris and Strassburg, Treuttel & Würtz, [1827]-1831

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