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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The 1979 1st edition of Richard Wolfe's "examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of America's first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates". #246 OF APPROXIMATELY 300 COPIES PUBLISHED. A clean, very sharp copy. Tight and Near Fine in its 1/4 morocco over patterned floral boards. Octavo, 121 pages. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates --one hand-colored and one left uncolored-- which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illustrate his edition in the usual hand-colored way" (From "A Note on the Illustrations").
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$136.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Decorated boards with leather spine. This is number 33 of 300 copies with one colored and one uncolored plate. Covers show only the very slightest edgewear with all pages clean, tight and unmarked.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter brown morocco spine with gilt rules & title over color patterned boards; 8vo; 121pp; illustrated with title page decoration plus 2 full page plates, one hand-colored; limited to 300 numbered (#4); printed finely on cream stock. Both plates are remaining, unused examples, that Bigelow intended to illustrate the original editions which were published between 1817 and 1821. This copy fine in all respects.
Seller: David Foley Sporting Books, Dallas, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$179.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Leather spine/gilt, decorative boards, leather tips. #208 of 300 copies. Slight sunning to spine, slight rubbing to leather edges. Two original engraved plates, one in color. Bookseller minor pencilled notation to ffep else tight and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter warm brown morocco gilt with decorated paper-covered boards and morocco tips, 8vo., 121 pages, two original engraved plates, one colored. One of approximately 300 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press from Baskerville and Trump Mediaeval types on Andorra paper. A fine copy in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, [xii]121 pages; number 211 of 300 numbered copies printed. Quarter red leather over decorative boards. America's first color plate book: "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates - one hand-colored and one left uncolored - which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illlustrate his edition in the usual, hand-colored way.led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates, some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates, amounting to several thousand, came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927. and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them - a colored and an uncolored specimen - into each copy of this edition." (p. ix). A fine copy.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto. Half morocco and decorated paper over boards. Two inserted plates, one hand-colored. Fine. First edition. Copy #313 of "approximately 300 copies" printed at the Bird & Bull Press, bound by E.G. Parrot II, with a title-page decoration by Fritz Eberhardt. As per the subtitle: "An examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of America's first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates." TAYLOR & MORRIS A21.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
WOLFE, Richard J.. Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany. , 1979.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: (BIGELOW, JACOB). WOLFE, Richard J. Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany, 1817-1821. An examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of America's first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates. Two engraved plates. Original morocco-backed patterned boards. North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.