Author: Titford, William Jowett
Title: Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus; or, Coloured Plates (with a Catalogue and Descriptions of Many Species) of New and Valuable Plants of the West Indies and North and South America. First Edition
Description: London: By the Author, 1811. 4to. 32 x 24.5 cm (12½ x 9¾") xiii-xviii, [ix]-xiv, viii, 35-132, iv, xiv, [10] pp. With hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 10 (of 18) hand-colored engraved plates. the forntispiece and plates 10-17 are presen; original printed boards. Imperfect volume of this important botanical work, containing only 10 of the 18 plates, lacking the title-page and other parts of the text, sold with all faults. But the plates are quite nice in themselves, though a bit toned with minor soiling. Formerly in the Wilmington Institute Free Library. Coming disbound, some foxing and other aging. No marks on pages or plates. Gordon Dunthorne, 306. .

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