9th Apr, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Sowerby (James).
English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. With their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth.
London: printed for the author, by J. Davis, 1790-1797, six volumes only, 432 hand-coloured plates as called for, variable faint spotting, occasional offsetting onto text/blank pages, bookplate and neat ink ownership inscription to each volume, half calf, marbled boards, vol. 1 lower board detached, joints split but holding on others, slightly rubbed.
(6)
Sold for £190
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 9th Apr, 2025
The Books, Maps and Manuscripts sales encompass a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, which are sold alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents. Held four times a year, the specialist Book sales incorporate both private collections and libraries, and single lots from vendors across the United Kingdom.
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