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The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées (3 Volumes in One)
by J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), Alphonse Karr, Alph. de Candolle: Translated by N. Cleaveland
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About This Item
A rare 1st American Edition Being 3 volumes in one. "Flowers Personified" bound with "Modern Botany for Ladies", "Ladies Horticulture by Cte Foelix" and "Supplement to the ladies Botany".
4to, pp385 + pp152 plus pp8 with 50 steel engraved plates by N. M. Gimbrede beautifully hand coloured along with 2 b/w botanical plates as called for. Hardcover issued without dust jacket. Binding of green morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt designs and title to spine and tooled decorative borders and dentelles to boards in good condition with some rubbing to front board and spine. Inside there is a little foxing throughout but otherwise all pages and plates in very good clean condition with the full edge gilt bright and shiny.
Know for his whimsical animal pictures in books such as "the public and private life of animals" and "les Metamorphoses du jour" as well as illustrating works of Balzac, of whom he was a collaborator and later rival, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and the fables of Aesop and La Fontaine. This was his last work completed in 1846 and published posthumously. A very nice copy of this important and beautiful work of the woman as flower.
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- Nikki Green Books
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- 977
- Title
- The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées (3 Volumes in One)
- Author
- J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), Alphonse Karr, Alph. de Candolle: Translated by N. Cleaveland
- Illustrator
- J.J. Grandville, engraved by Joseph Napoleon Gimbrede
- Format/Binding
- Very Good
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. Martin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1847
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Art /Literature
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