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Calmann, Gerta EHRET FLOWER PAINTER EXTRAORDINARY Boston, MA New York Graphic Society 1977 0821207075 / 9780821207079 1st American Edition; 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Illustrated by Georg Dionysius Ehret Color Illustrations; Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Grey cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine of book. An oversized edition (folio), approximately thirteen inches tall by ten inches wide. There are two small bumps to top edges of book cover. Text pages clean & bright. Previous owner's ink stamped name on both front and rear pastedowns. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. Top rear flap corner of dust jacket has been torn off (not clipped, but rather raggedly removed). Top edge of dust jacket (all the way around) has some light bumping, rubbing and wrinkling. There are several small edge tears to dust jacket (two at spine edge where there is some associated wrinkling) and there is a very small tear to front dust jacket right at spine hinge. Spine of dust jacket has some beginning sunning. There is another small tear to rear spine joint also. Overall, a very good copy. Book includes 33 color and 62 black and white illustrations. --George Dinoysius Ehret was a genius in a very limited field, the drawing of plants. But in an age in which botanical illustrations was highly prized and passionately collected, Ehret became the foremost botanical illustrator--. Price:
60.00 USD
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