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Auction archive: Lot number 163

Flora and Sylva

Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$570
Auction archive: Lot number 163

Flora and Sylva

Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$570
Beschreibung:

Title: Flora and Sylva Author: Robinson, W[illiam], Editor Place: London Publisher: [W. Robinson] Date: 1903-05 Description: Volumes 1 through 3 (all published). Illustrated with 66 chromolithograph plates by H.G. Moon, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (4to) 12¼x9½, period half vellum and white cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition. "... it struck me that periodicals of this kind had always been over much devoted to flowers and plants as distinct from trees and shrubs, while every day of my life I see more and more the beauty and value of the tree. So I married Flora to Sylva - a pair not far apart in nature, only in books. The flowers are as the lovely clouds that pass over an alpine range, the trees as the cliffs and mountains that remain." (from the editor's preface) Lot Amendments Condition: Some soiling to vellum and cloth, light edge wear, corners bumped; some foxing to plates and adjacent pages; else very good. Item number: 184479

Auction archive: Lot number 163
Auction:
Datum:
13 Sep 2007
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Flora and Sylva Author: Robinson, W[illiam], Editor Place: London Publisher: [W. Robinson] Date: 1903-05 Description: Volumes 1 through 3 (all published). Illustrated with 66 chromolithograph plates by H.G. Moon, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (4to) 12¼x9½, period half vellum and white cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition. "... it struck me that periodicals of this kind had always been over much devoted to flowers and plants as distinct from trees and shrubs, while every day of my life I see more and more the beauty and value of the tree. So I married Flora to Sylva - a pair not far apart in nature, only in books. The flowers are as the lovely clouds that pass over an alpine range, the trees as the cliffs and mountains that remain." (from the editor's preface) Lot Amendments Condition: Some soiling to vellum and cloth, light edge wear, corners bumped; some foxing to plates and adjacent pages; else very good. Item number: 184479

Auction archive: Lot number 163
Auction:
Datum:
13 Sep 2007
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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