1840 1ed Magazine of BOTANY Paxton Flowers Color Illustrated Plants Seeds RARE

PAXTON, Joseph

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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!

 

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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