Exotic Flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting exotic plants, especially of such as are deserving of being cultivated in our gardens; together with remarks upon their generic and specific characters, natural orders, history, culture, time of flowering, &c.
Eur 7,500 / USD 8,200
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Edinburgh, printed for W. Blackwood, 1823-1827. 3 volumes. Royal-8vo (250 x 165mm). With 233 handcoloured engraved plates, many folding or double-page. Publishers green cloth, spines with gilt lines and lettering (old repair to hinges and corners a bit rubbed).
one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works
First and only edition of one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works. "This important work reflects the extent of active plant introduction into Great Britain, and Hooker's part in it. Many of the plates represent new species ... the notes give interesting details, often including the history of the introduction of the plants" (Margadant. Hooker, 6).
'By the early 1820s plants collected by Charles Fraser and Allan Cunningham in Australia were becoming established for horticulture and coming to Hooker's attention. Hooker treated some of these in his 'Exotic Flora'' (Hewson, 'Australia 300 Years of Botanical Illustration' p. 91). Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was professor of Botany at Glasgow University and was appointed director of Kew in 1841. He was one of the most important botanists of the Victorian era. Old library stamps on titles.
The fine plates were drawn by R.K. Greville, L. Guilding, J. Lindley and A. Menzies, and engraved by J. Swann.Bon
Great Flower Books, p. 60; Nissen BBI, 920.