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Elizabeth Twining - The Aralia Tribe 1849.
This rare hand-coloured lithograph of the Araliaceae - The Aralia Tribe is from Illustrations of the Natural Order of Plants by Elizabeth Twining. Published in London by Joseph Cundall 1849 (Vol I) and Day & Son 1855 (Vol II).
The hand-coloured lithographic plates are heightened with gum arabic.The fine plates in this work depict plants arranged by botanical families using de Candolle's classification; where a family is known to include a British member this is included, and each plate includes between two and seven members of each family.
Size: 13in x19 in (33cm x 48cm).
The print is in excellent condition - please inspect the image carefully
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