Botany.- Loddiges (Conrad & Sons) The Botanical Cabinet, consisting

Botany.- Loddiges (Conrad & Sons) The Botanical Cabinet, consisting of Coloured Delineations of Plants from all Countries, 200 parts, 2000 engraved hand-coloured plates and 3 plain plates, engraved titles, some folding, a few loose or becoming so, some light foxing and offsetting, nearly all in original printed wrappers, a few in contemporary plain wrappers, few covers detached or chipped, few with ink corrections to part number, rubbing, some wear to extremities, housed in 10 slip-cases, [Dunthorne 187; Great Flower Books, p.160; Hunt, p.219; Nissen BBI 2228], 8vo & 4to, 1817-33. *** Rare in original parts. Conrad Loddiges was a Dutch-born horticulturalist who settled in Hackney and worked as a nurseryman. He and his sons introduced several new species to Britain, including many plants from America. By the early nineteenth-century, the Loddiges's family nursery had become famous throughout the world for introducing rare and exotic plants to Britain, most of which were later illustrated in this work.

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