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Greville, Robert Kaye (1794-1866) Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi. Edinburgh: for MacLachlan & Stewart, 1823-1828. First edition, six large octavo volumes, published as a supplement to Sowerby's English Botany, illustrated throughout with 360 hand-colored engravings of fungi by William Miller after Greville; no half-titles, bound in contemporary half green morocco with marbled paper boards, a.e.g., limited minor foxing, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (6)
Estimate $700-900
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