English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth. To which will be added, Occasional Remarks. 36-volume set. [Known also as 'Sowerby's Botany'.]
London: Printed for the Author, by J. Davis. 1790 to 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Sowerby’s 2592 hand-coloured plates, each facing its descriptive text, and followed by a blank opening. The plates are almost all clean and bright. Where some text pages are foxed, this is generally light and unintrusive. An..... More