1840 1ed Magazine of BOTANY Paxton Flowers Color Illustrated Plants Seeds RARE
Joseph Paxton was a 19th-century English gardener who is best-remembered for cultivating the banana in the Western world. In 1834, Paxton began publishing a botanical periodical – the ‘Magazine of Botany’ – in which Paxton and other writers provided in depth research, discussions, and information on all types of plants. And while the descriptions themselves and thorough, the full-page, color illustrations make the volumes from this work one of the most desirable botany works from the first half of the 19th-century.
This particular volume contains 48 exquisite hand-colored engravings of plants, flowers, and leaves!
1840 1ed Magazine of BOTANY Paxton Flowers Color Illustrated Plants Seeds RARE
Joseph Paxton was a 19th-century English gardener who is best-remembered for cultivating the banana in the Western world. In 1834, Paxton began publishing a botanical periodical – the ‘Magazine of Botany’ – in which Paxton and other writers provided in depth research, discussions, and information on all types of plants. And while the descriptions themselves and thorough, the full-page, color illustrations make the volumes from this work one of the most desirable botany works from the first half of the 19th-century.
This particular volume contains 48 exquisite hand-colored engravings of plants, flowers, and leaves!
Item number: #17647
Price: $750
PAXTON, Joseph
Paxton’s magazine of botany, and register of flowering plants. Volume the seventh
London: published by Orr & Co., 1840. First edition.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- xii, 280
- 48 hand-colored plates
- Language: English
- Binding: Leather; tight and secure
- Size: ~9.5in X 6.75in (24cm x 17cm)
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17647
Category
Botany, Gardening, & Herbals
Authors
PAXTON, Joseph
Printing Date
19th Century
Language
English
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete