Philip Miller, figures of the most beautiful, useful, and un - Lot 234

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Philip Miller, figures of the most beautiful, useful, and un - Lot 234
Philip Miller, figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the gardeners dictionary exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the caracters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, the description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnaeus's method of classing them, London, printed for the Author, Sold by John and Francis Rivington, J. Whiston, J. Hinton, T. Longman, B. White, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, and J. Dodsley, 1771, 2 vols, folio, 200pp.-CCC plates-2ff, half red glazed calf with corners, gilt roulette on boards, spines decorated, morocco title and greefs (Walker & Sons), bindings rubbed. 300 plates finely watercolored at the time, the most beautiful work of the best gardener of his time. A rare fresh copy in very beautiful period colors. Expert : Guillaume LEGRY.
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