[NATURAL HISTORY]. FURBER, Robert (ca 1674-1756) and Richard BRADLEY (d.1732). The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers. London: R. Montagu, J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1734.

4to (254 x 184 mm). Title printed in red and black, hand-colored engraved title-page, 12 hand-colored engraved plates. Modern calf antique gilt. (Marginal browning to plates, C4 with repaired closed tear at margin.) Provenance: Samuel Jones, possibly the American lawyer and New York politician (armorial bookplate).

Second edition, with the addition of "The Flower-Garden for Gentlemen and Ladies" not present in the first edition of 1730. The plates for both quarto editions are reductions of Furber's folio Twelve Months of Flowers (1730). Peter Smith engraved the plates after the original paintings by P. Casteels. Cleveland Collections 377; Dunthorne 114; Great Flower Books, pp.30-31; Hunt 493.

Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas

This lot is located in Chicago.