Beautiful Wild Flowers of America from Original Water-Color Drawings After Nature By Isaac Sprague

by Hervey, A.B

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Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1892. Non-paginated. Very Good + condition brown/taupe cloth hardcover, large folio. Light wear to cloth at edges and corners, all edges gilt, gilt lettering to front and spine, illustrated front board. Binding sound. Illustrated with ten richly colored and artfully rendered full page chromolithographs from the original water-colors of Isaac Sprague. Tissues intact on all plates, with scattered foxing to the tissue, some of which is lightly shadowed on the plates and opposite blank pages. From the end of an era in botanical literature when the boundaries of botany, art, science and medicine were not as strictly defined by discipline, the contents of this book smoothly merge botanical descriptions, habit, lore and medicinal uses with scientific literature references, evocative verse and beautifully rendered botanical illustrations. The plants featured: The Arethusa, The Shortia, The Arrow-head, Hay-Scented Fern, Blue-Stemmed Golden-Rod, The Fringed Gentian, Mountain Fringe, The Arrow-Leafed Violet, The Calopogon and Spinulose, or Common Wood Fern. Botanists mentioned include Asa Gray, A.H. Curtiss, L. Richard, Erasmus Darwin and George M. Hyens. Extracts of verse from Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes, Shelley, Lowell, Larcom, Wordsworth and Thoreau. #1932.. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good+. Illus. by Isaac Sprague.. Folio - over 12 Inches Tall. Botany, Botanical Illustration, Isaac Sprague, Rev. A.B. Hervey, Wildflowers, North America, Antiquarian, Illustrated, Illustration, Watercolors, Color Plates, Plants, Chromolithographs, Arethusa, Shortia, Arrow-head, Hay-Scented Fern, Blue-Stemmed Golden-Rod, Fringed Gentian, Mountain Fringe, Arrow-Leafed Violet, Calopogon, Spinulose, Common Wood Fern, Botanists, Asa Gray, A.H. Curtiss, L. Richard, George M. Hyens, Erasmus Darwin, Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes, Shelley, Lowell, Larcom, Wordsworth, Thoreau.

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