Botanical Register (3 results)

A separately issued catalogue and index to accompany the first volume of the Botanical Register, listing the works cited and providing a navigational aid to one of the period's key botanical publications. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Octavo, pp. [4] xi [1]. Original brown wrappers, stitched as issued, wrappers lettered in black. Wrappers and edges worn, foxing to wrappers and a few pages. A good copy only.

Condition: Very Good. William Curtis (Botanical Magazine), George Cooke (Botanical Cabinet), John Lindley (Edwards Botanical Register), Robert Sweet (British Flower Garden). (illustrator). First Edition. Large, beautiful hand-colored plates based on the finest of British serial botanicals, but repackaging those illustrations into a larger format, with larger renderings of many of the flowers, the result often being even more visually exciting plates than appeared in the source material. Folio, 38.5 by 29 cm. Unpaginated. 90 leaves (with content, not counting the plates). Two half-titles, one of which is on tissue. 4 page Table Alphabetique. The book proceeds with consecutive months. The January issue of each serial is presented, followed by their February installment, etc. Generally for each month there are two or three leaves of text for the particular publication, plus a hand-colored plate with four to ten different specimens arranged on the page The text is entirely devoted to descriptions of the several flowers shown in the plate. This copy has 35 hand-colored plates, and is lacking two plates for the three publications. For December, though, there is a plate for "The Flower Garden", an English serial botanical publication not listed on the title, and this plate is accompanied by only a single page of description, and the text is obviously incomplete -- there should have been another page, perhaps two, since only one flower of four is described. There is no plate for the Register in January or in August. Since there are text pages for the Register in both months, we assume our copy is missing plates, but we haven't examined other copies, and the OCLC listings do not inform us of plate counts. We do not rule out that our copy was how the publication was issued. We also don't know whether the inclusion of a single month of the Flower Garden was done for all copies. The missing text page or two certainly speaks of incompleteness, but again, we would want to know what was done with other copies. For each month, there is a plate for specimens from each of the three constituent magazines from which this Belgian publication was based upon. This periodical was assembled under the direction of Drapiez from 1833 to 1838 and is rare, perhaps surprisingly so, with no copies in commerce on the date of this listing. OCLC First Search shows four institutional copies bearing the same title, all supposedly the full six year run of this publication, and two other listings that may be identical but for the title. None could we find in commerce on the date of this listing being uploaded. We emphasize that one should not consider this anthology of British botanical serials redundant of those sources, even discounting the fact that this is a translation, the illustrations were formatted differently, and arguably, more strikingly in this publication. Also, the illustrations for a particular month do not follow what the source serial had for that month, but rather, Drapiez selected from various issues of the source serial what he presented for the month. We would guess he tinkered with the explanatory material as well, but we haven't done the comparison to confirm this. Condition: Possibly missing two plates, with the surplusage of an additional plate. Rebacked, with modern calf of a slightly different color than the original corner calf pieces which are sufficiently disintegrated (rubbed and abraded) that the color difference isn't conspicuous or bothersome. The marbled paper pastedown on the boards is dotted throughout with white spots -- loss of the marbled effect. Edgewear to the boards, with some rougher areas. One leaf with two tears perpendicular to the hinge from which they connect and running a few cm long. Foxing, generally light, mostly affecting earlier and last leaves. Most leaves are clean or sufficiently clean to read as such. The color of the color plates remains bright. An attractive copy. Half Calf. Marbled pastedown on boards.

Condition: Gut. Hrsg. v. S. Sprunger mit P. J. Cribb u. W. T. Stearn. Reprint. 2 Bände. Birkhäuser, Basel 1991. 326 u. 322 S. mit zahlr. farb. Taf. Gr.-4°. Ln. u. Ppbde. mit Schutzumschl. in illustr. Schuber. Laden + S 7 / 29176 Mit Ausnahme von Direkt-Recycling Materialien erfolgt der Versand ohne Einsatz von Kunststoffen. Sprache: Deutsch.