Insectivorous Plants (First American Edition) 315 x 245 mm)

315 x 245 mm)

lettered in orange

This fine publication is completely separate work from Hooker’s volume ‘A Century of Orchidaceous Plants’ published in 1846

From the private research collection of Cornell University herpetologist Kraig Adler with his small bookplate on the verso of the half-title page

Carroll and Cook Publisher Place Albany Date Published 1843 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description The text is bright and clean

Insectivorous Plants (First American Edition) 315 x 245 mm)Pp. x, 462, (8, ads). Publishers original brick red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, decorated with four black wheels and black panel lines on the front and rear boards, original yellow endpapers, sm 8vo. Freeman #1220. The American first edition was published from the stereos of the first English edition which also appeared in 1875. From the research collection of A. G. Brice of New Orleans with his bookplate on the front attached endpaper.