Lot 141: ANDREWS (HENRY C.)

Coloured Engravings of Heaths. The Drawings taken from living plants only. With the appropriate specific character, full description, native place of growth, and time of flowering of each; in Latin and English. Each figure accompanied by accurate dissections of the several parts, (magnified where necessary,) upon which the specific distinction has been founded, according to the Linnaean System, 4 parts in 3 vol., half-titles, 223 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 288), 6 of which are printer's or colourist's proofs with penciled notes (such as "This is the original pattern plate") and brush test marks or specks of paint, occasional spotting, mostly to preliminaries and text leaves, contemporary half morocco, gilt, rebacked, worn [Dunthrone 9; Great Flower Books 47; BBI 31; Pritzel 175], folio (300 x 450mm.), by the Author, [1794]-1802-1809-[1830]