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Pratt, Anne. Wild Flowers Vol II. Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 190 + coloured chromolithography plates. In Red Cloth Binding rubbed at head of spine but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally bright, free of spotting etc.
Seller: anglimm books, Truro, United Kingdom
Anne Pratt. Wild Flowers Volume 1. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Believed 1st printing. with Ninety-six excellent colour plates, some with pencil observation notes (mainly Sussex).
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$246.66 + shipping
Description: Vol. 1: V, IV, 192 Seiten, Vol. 2: VIII. 195 Seiten, insgesamt 192 chromlithogr. Tafeln. Leder. Einbände berieben und bestossen, mit kleirneren Abschabungen. Rückenschildchen nur mehr rudimentär vorhanden. Bindung jedoch fest, innen sauber und stockfleckenfrei. Anne Pratt (* 5. Dezember 1806 in Strood (Kent); 27. Juli 1893 in London) war eine britische Botanik- und Ornithologieillustratorin. Sie war eine der bekanntesten englischen Illustratoren auf diesem Gebiet im viktorianischen Zeitalter.
Seller: Antiquariat Löwenstein, Göllersdorf, NÖ, Austria
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1857. Volume One Only. With 90 plates, printed in colours. Ownership Inscription of Caroline Hibbert Butler. This would have belonged to a family member of Henry Williamson's first wife Ida Loetitia Hibbert. The Hibbert's were a wealthy middle class family in Devon. Williamson' met Ida Loetitia at various hunting meets and fell in love. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good and re cased retaining the original end papers and spine. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. ref 17593
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Pratt, Anne.. Wild flowers.. London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857.
Price: US$315.72 + shipping
Description: 2 Bde. kl.-8° V/192, VIII/195 S., m. 191 farb. Lithogr. (1 Taf. fehlt). OLdr., m. vergold. Rück.-Tit., schöner Rück.-Vergold., marmor. Schnitt, diverse Defekte a. Rücken (Ab-u. Einrisse), berieben u. bestossen, leicht fleckig, Vors. u. tit.-Bl. leicht fleckig, innen sauber erhalten. Auf Wunsch senden wir gerne ein Foto des Buches via E-mail Sprache: Deutschu 0,750 gr.
Seller: Neusser Buch & Kunst Antiquariat, Neuss, NRW, Germany
Pratt, Anne. Wild Flowers. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1857.
Price: US$317.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32mo. Two Volumes. Green cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, iv, 192pp; v, 195pp. Richly illustrated with 188 chromolithographic plates; owner name on ff/ endpaper, paper repairs to verso of 2nd plate and pp. 192 [Vol. I]; a paper repair to verso of title, contents, and plate 1 [Volume II]. Light foxing, pencil notations in margins, boards and edges a bit faded o/w a very good copy. Anne Pratt [1806-1893] was an English botanist and ornithologist author, illustrator who composed over 20 works on the subject, and is credited with popularizing its study during the Victorian period.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, 2 volumes: pp. 192,195. With 192 plates, printed in colours. Paper repair on the verso of the title page and contents of vol. 2. Bookplates, name on end papers. Bound in rubbed and some worn leather backed cloth with leather label. Leaves some toned but a good set. Anne Pratt (1806-93), a grocer's daughter from Kent and author of Common Things of the Seaside and Our Native Songsters, illustrated all of her botanical books in the spirit of the Victorian Naturalists and successfully merged the study of botany with romantic flower-lore. Wild Flowers is Miss Pratt's first botanical work. In 1855, she produced her The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain. (Blunt p. 236). A good example of 19th education.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.