(BOTANICAL.) James Sowerby. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. [Plus Supplement]. Nearly 3,000 hand-colored engraved plates with descriptive text leaves arranged not in numerical order but by Linnaean systematic classification, presumed complete; preface to the first, fourth, and seventh volumes and index series bound in volume one; some plates printed in colors, a few folding; approximately 100 manuscript classification/order sectional titles bound in, most of these on 1827 watermarked paper. 40 volumes bound in 24. 8vo, 9½x6 inches, contemporary diced calf, uniformly rebacked at an early time with gilt morocco spine labels, a little dry and rubbed but all sound; supplement in moderately worn half calf with armorial bookplates of Kington Baker; occasional browning and offset, scattered ink and pencil marginalia. London, 1790-1814; 1831-1849