Lot 1292 , Green, Thomas - The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of all the known plants in the world, arranged according to the Linnean system ... 1st edition, 2 vols. wit

° Green, Thomas - The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of all the known plants in the world, arranged according to the Linnean system ... 1st edition, 2 vols. with hand coloured pictorial engraved title, 2 hand coloured frontispieces and 103 (ex105) hand coloured plates; sometime rebound black calf, gilt tooled borders and gilt decorated and lettered panelled spines, folio. Liverpool, (1820)
£250-300

Condition:
Inner joints sl. cracked and outer ones tender, though smart looking set; titles browned, also on num. text pp. (plts offset, and on some others); some plts. with 'residual' light browning - but hardly detracting. [4], 790 and 886pp., sm. and neat Honolulu ownership stamp front flyleaf both vols.