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Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1856) 16 books total
Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1856) 16 books total
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Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1856)

Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants

London: Orr and Smith, 1834-1849, quarto, sixteen volumes (of 16), containing 768 hand-colored plates (engraving and lithograph) by F. W. Smith and S. Holden, with numerous in-text woodcuts by C. J. Flemin and O. Jewitt, in half brown leather with embossed fillet on green moire cloth boards, the flat spines with raised bands and gilt rule and lettering, the edges cut and gilt, most with armorial bookplate of Gervaise Tottenham Waldo-Sibthorp, M.P. (1815-1861).
[Stafleu TL-II 7544; Stearn p. 161; Nissen BBI 2351; Pritzel 7003]


16 books total
leaf 32.1 x 15.9 cm; overall 23.9 x 17.2 cm

Provenance: Estate of Richard Anthony Goula, proceeds to benefit the Thistlewood Foundation, Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1856) 16 books total

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