Andrews, H. C.
The Heathery; or a Monograph of the Genus Erica, containing Coloured Engravings, with Latin and English Descriptions and Dissections, etc., of all the Known Species of that Extensive and Distinguished Tribe of Plants.
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Seller ID: 1845 Volume III. London: for the Author by Richard Taylor and Co., 1806. First edition (unpaginated). Small folio (24 cm) in modern three-quarter leather over fine cloth, gilt titles and decorations, marbled edges; fifty fine full-page hand-coloured engravings on rag paper of varieties of heather (Nos. 101- 150 from the six-volume work), in this instance those native to the Cape of Good Hope (and likely elsewhere in South Africa), each plate with Latin and English descriptions en face. An exceptionally fine, bright copy. Price: $800.00
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