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CURTIS (WILLIAM) Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, vol. 1-5 (of 6), by the author and B. White, 1777
25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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CURTIS (WILLIAM)
Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of Such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, vol. 1-5 (of 6), mixed set, title to volume 1 only, 360 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional spotting and light browning (mainly only in volume 5), worm trail in margins of first few leaves of volume 4, volumes 1-3 later half calf, volumes 4-5 uncut in contemporary half sheep [Nissen BBI 439; Hunt 650; Dunthorne 87; Henrey 595; Great Flower Books, p.54], folio (466 x 280mm. and 498 x 293mm.), by the author and B. White, 1777
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Provenance: George Alan Lowndes, Barrington Hall, bookplate in volumes 1-3; M.G. Edgar and Mary Anne Edgar, ownership inscriptions in volumes 4-5 dated 1815 and 1819.
