Bidspirit auction | Wild Flowers of America: Botanical

Wild Flowers of America: Botanical Fine Art Weekly. G. H. Buek & Co., 1894. - This landscape format hardcover volume is titled Wild Flowers of America, published as part of the Botanical Fine Art Weekly series by G. H. Buek and Co. of New York. The title page indicates a copyright date of 1894 and states the work features flowers of every state in the American Union produced by a corps of special artists and botanists. The book is bound in the publisher's original brown morocco grain cloth with gilt stamped lettering and a floral corner motif on the front cover. Internally, the volume contains numerous numbered chromolithographed color plates of botanical specimens. Visible plates include specimen 147 Common Flea-Bean (Erigeron philadelphicus), 148 Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), 161 Mariposa Lily or Butterfly Tulip (Calochortus venustus), and 162 Long-Tubed Ruellia (Ruellia ciliosa). A typed paper ownership label is affixed to an internal page reading Property of Eva VanDerlip. Poor to fair condition. The cloth binding shows significant shelf wear, edge wear, and surface abrasions. The spine is heavily compromised with vertical cracking and substantial material loss at both the head and foot. The interior displays heavy foxing throughout, with large brown dampstains affecting the endpapers. The binding is weakened with visible separation at the gutter.