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WALLICH (NATHANAEL) Tentamen florae Napalensis illustratae; consisting of Botanical Descriptions and Lithographic Figures of Select Nipal Plants], [Calcutta and Serampore, Asiatic Lithographic Press, 1824-1826] image 1
WALLICH (NATHANAEL) Tentamen florae Napalensis illustratae; consisting of Botanical Descriptions and Lithographic Figures of Select Nipal Plants], [Calcutta and Serampore, Asiatic Lithographic Press, 1824-1826] image 2
WALLICH (NATHANAEL) Tentamen florae Napalensis illustratae; consisting of Botanical Descriptions and Lithographic Figures of Select Nipal Plants], [Calcutta and Serampore, Asiatic Lithographic Press, 1824-1826] image 3
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WALLICH (NATHANAEL)
Tentamen florae Napalensis illustratae; consisting of Botanical Descriptions and Lithographic Figures of Select Nipal Plants], [Calcutta and Serampore, Asiatic Lithographic Press, 1824-1826]

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[WALLICH (NATHANIEL)

Tentamen florae Napalensis illustratae; consisting of Botanical Descriptions and Lithographic Figures of Select Nipal Plants], 50 lithographed plates (complete, plates 1-25 HAND-COLOURED), 64pp. of text (as called for by Nissen, without a title, which was on the original wrappers), spotting to some text leaves, and the uncoloured plates 26-50, early green half calf over boards, worn [Nissen BBI 2100; Sitwell p.148], folio (468 x 265mm.), [Calcutta and Serampore, Asiatic Lithographic Press, 1824-1826]

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VERY RARE STUDY OF NEPALESE BOTANY WITH AN ATTRACTIVE PROVENANCE. We have traced no copies offered at auction on Rare Book Hub.

Only two parts were issued. The plates in the first part (in this copy finely hand-coloured) were all drawn by Vishnupursaud, and printed on paper mostly watermarked "T. Edmonds 1822". The plates in the second part (uncoloured, seemingly as usual) are mostly by Gorachand with a few by Vishnupursaud, and printed on unwatermarked paper.

Provenance: Sarah Hay Williams (née Amherst, 1801-1876), bookplate. She was the daughter of William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst and his wife Sarah, with whom she travelled throughout India during the time her father served as Governor of Bengal. Sarah was, like her mother, an accomplished botanical illustrator and corresponded with Wallich, superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. He named a plant, the "Amherstia nobilis" (illustrated in his Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, 1830) in their honour; by descent to present owner.

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