[NATURAL HISTORY]. MUNSON, Laura G. Flowers from My Garden. NY, 1864. FIRST EDITION.
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[NATURAL HISTORY]. MUNSON, Laura Gordon. Flowers from My Garden. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1864.
4to. 18 hand-colored lithographs including frontispiece. Original deluxe morocco, upper cover gilt-lettered within a gilt-stamped wreath, all within numerous frames in blind, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, all edges gilt (light rubbing to extremities).
FIRST EDITION. The work includes an introductory poem by Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and the eighteen plates are accompanied by verse by Hooper, May, Hunt, Longfellow, Mrs. Hale, and Felicia Hemans. Bennett, p.81; McGrath, p.209.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
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