[Botany] Barton, William P. C. A Flora of North America. Volume III. 4to. (viii), 100 pp. Original morocco in buff boards, raised bands, gilt spine designs in panels with lettering. Bennett page 9. Sitwell, page 73. Plesch 33. Dunthorne 26; Nissen BBI 84; MacPhail Benjamin Smith Barton and William Crillon Barton 19; Meisel III, p.385; Pritzel 446; Reese Stamped with a National Character 11; Sabin 3858; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 236.'A cornerstone in any collection of illustrated works on American Wildfowers and floras'?Woodburn. This work constitutes the first American use of the technique called color printing, which attracted Barton's attention when used by Micheaux in the French Edition of 'Les Histories des Arbres. Soiling and edge wear to boards. Old staining to top edge blank margin and last 25 pages of text. Binding slightly shaken. Occasional foxing.

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