* The full tax is charged on this item marked * in the auction catalogue, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum of the bid price plus the surcharge for those items. The VAT will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.'BOTANIK - Curtis, William. Flora Londinensis: Containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain, illustrated by figures of natural size. A new edition, enlarged by George Graves and William Jackson Hooker. 5 vols. With 646 (instead of 647) col. Copper plates, partly heightened with white. London, Bohn, 1835. gr. folio (49.5 × 30 cm). Green half-leather bindings of the period, signed J[ohn] Wright, Noel Street [London], each with 2 red spine labels, rich gilt spines, marbled boards and endpapers, and gilt edges (somewhat rubbed and bumped, ends of joints partially cracked, continuing at 2 joints, some repairs to capitals). Stafleu-C. 1286 - Nissen BBI 439 (erroneous collation). - Title edition of the second edition 1817-28. Flora of Great Britain, first published 1775-98, intended to be complete. The first 3 volumes contain the 432 plates of the first edition with revised text by Hooker, the two remaining volumes are completely new. The majority of the added plates and associated descriptions are again by Hooker. The precise life-size illustrations include a number of magnificent mushrooms. - Provenance: bookplate Christopher Turnor (1806-86), Stoke Rochford Library. - Some sporadic foxing, overall a remarkably fresh copy. This item marked with * (asterisk) is fully subject to VAT, i.e. VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium for these items. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be reimbursed the VAT.