Description: Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus; or, Coloured Plates (With a Catalogue and Concise and Familiar Descriptions of Many Species) of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies and North and South America. Also of Several Others, Natives of Africa and the East Indies: Arranged After the Linnaean System. With a Concise and Comprehensive Glossary of Terms, Prefixed, and a General Index. By W. J. Titford, M.D. Printed in London in 1811. Complete with frontispiece + 17 hand-colored engraved plates. This is a gorgeous book. The marbling is unique and striking in a way that I haven't seen in many books. The plates all look incredible. My photos did not really capture the depth and richness of the color, especially in the frontispiece. Summary of Damage: -The front cover board hinge is loose and slightly detached. It is still connected, but there is a separation that can be seen in the photos. -Some rubbing and wear to the corners and edges of the cover boards that can be seen in photos in addition to some wear to the marbling of the cover boards. -The spine has some wear, a tear at the tail, and some staining/discoloration to the top edge, all of which can be seen in the photos. -Some offsetting which can be seen on the title page. -There is some foxing, mostly minor but moderate on a few pages of the book. All of the pages with the hand-colored plates are clean, though. -Pages 10-30 have the upper right corner folded over. Very slight, approximately a centimeter fold at worst, and it gradually lessens. For any questions or requests for additional information or photos, please feel free to reach out to me. Thanks for your interest!
Price: 799.99 USD
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
End Time: 2024-10-21T03:45:44.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Language: English
Signed: No
Author: W. J. Titford
Personalized: No
Publisher: C. Stower
Topic: Ecology, Environment
Subject: Science & Medicine
Year Printed: 1811
Original/Facsimile: Original
