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Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Honourable the East India Company, and Printed by Order of the Government of Bengal. Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum. Parts I–IV - William Griffith  - A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century
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William Griffith (1810 - 1845)

Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Honourable the East India Company, and Printed by Order of the Government of Bengal. Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum. Parts I–IV

William Griffith, Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Honourable the East India Company, and Printed by Order of the Government of Bengal. Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum. Parts I–IV, Calcutta, Bishop's College Press [-C.A. Serrao-A.B. Coshan], 1847-1854

4 parts bound in 1 volume
Part I: Development of Organs in Phanerogamous Plants (1847), pp. [4], xxviii, 661, with numerous lithographic plates.
Part II: On the Higher Cryptogamous Plants (1849), pp. [2], 253–390, with numerous lithographic plates.
Part III: Monocotyledonous Plants (1851), pp. [2], 391–582, with 21 lithographic plates.
Part IV: Dicotyledonous Plants (1854), pp. [2], 583–817, with numerous lithographic plates.
Comprising all four parts of Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum, continuously paginated and illustrated throughout with a total of 627 lithographed plates (numbered 1-661 with 37 bis plates, of which 34 noted by Nissen, but without plates 175-242, 65, 395, 511 and 524 as issued), approximately 100 hand-coloured plates; early half morocco with five raised bands and tooled in gilt on the spine, top edges gilt
13.5 x 10.5 in (34.5 x 27 cm)

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