FLOWERS and FERNS of the UNITED STATES, 1878 & 1880, First Edition, complete four volumes

THE NATIVE FLOWERS AND FERNS OF THE UNITED STATES
in Their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects

1st Edition, 1878 & 1880, Boston, L.Prang & Company

Thomas Meehan, author
Alois Lunzer, illustrator

Illustrations : 192 full-page Botannical illustrations
in chromolithograph by Alois Lunzer. (48 full-page chromolithograph illustrations in each); beautiful plates by Austrian-born watercolor painter Alois Lunzer who specialized in botanical illustrations.

The publisher, Louis Prang, is best known as the 'father of the American Christmas card', but was also a general printer and lithographer.

Complete original two series in four volumes
First Series (1878)Vol. 1, 192 pages, Vol.2, 200 pages
Second Series, (1880)Vol.1, 196 pages, Vol.2, 204 pages


Hard-cover, 10-1/2" x 7-3/4", period half leather binding with gold titles;
total 792 pages, all edges gold gilt, marbled endpapers; spines starting, bumped top, chipped bottom, first series v1 ffep & title page detaching, very slight tanning, no foxing,

text clean throughout, illustrations fine throughout.
FOUR VOLUMES (Complete) ....................................................................................................SOLD