Native Flowers
Item #44757
MEEHAN, Thomas. The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in Their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects. Boston, 1878-80. Four volumes. ix, 192; v, 200; ix, 196; 204pp. 48 chromolithographed plates in each volume, for a total of 192 plates. Publisher's half morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. Light wear at extremities. images clean and bright. A very good set. Taxonomic Literature 5783. McGrath, pp. 145–146. Bennett, p. 75. Meehan (1826–1901) was an Englishman, trained at Kew, who, after stints working for various Philadelphia botanists and nurserymen, moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1853, where he spent the rest of his life running a nursery and editing various gardening periodicals. This is his masterwork, and one of the leading authorities on ferns in America. It is also a notable 19th-century American color plate book, issued by Prang of Boston, the leading chomolithographer of the period.
Price: $2,000.00