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The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées (3 Volumes in One)

The Flowers Personified; Being a Translation of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées (3 Volumes in One)

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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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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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Bookseller
Nikki Green Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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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About Nikki Green Books

Nikki Green Books is based in Glasgow. We are third generation bookdealers, beginning with Eve Lowell who started The Dartmoor Bookshop in Ashburton and Sue Lowell Natural History Books, our parent company, based in London. We specialise in natural history along with a wide range of subjects

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Raised Band(s)
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Spine
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Gilt
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Rubbing
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