Lot no. 234
Philip Miller, figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the gardeners dictionnary exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the caracters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, the description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray’s, Tournefort’s, and Linnaeus’s method of classing them, London, printed for the Author, Sold by John and Francis Rivington, J. Whiston, J. Hinton, T. Longman, B. White, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, and J. Dodsley, 1771, 2 vol., in-folio, de 200pp.-CCC planches-2ff., demi veau glacé rouge à coins, roulette dorée sur les plats, dos ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin (Walker & Sons), reliures frottées. 300 planches finement aquarellées à l’époque, le plus bel ouvrage du meilleur jardinier de son temps. Exemplaire d’une rare fraicheur dans de très beaux coloris d’époque. Expert : Guillaume LEGRY.
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11/24/2022
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