Botany.- Sweet (Robert) Geraniacae. The Natural Order of Gerania

Botany.- Sweet (Robert) Geraniacae. The Natural Order of Gerania, 5 vol., first edition, including supplement, 500 hand-coloured engraved plates, pages are generally bright and clean, offsetting from plates, occasional foxing, near contemporary half morocco, rubbed to extremities and spines, [Dunthorne 292; Nissen BBI 1926], 8vo, James Ridgway, 1820-1830. *** Illustrated by Edwin Dalton Smith and engraved by S. Watts, this beautifully illustrated work was one of many by Robert Sweet (1783-1835) on plants cultivated in British gardens and hothouses.

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