The American Flora,or History of Plants and Wild Flowers.

New York: Strong and Bidwell,, 1846. Book. 4to, early 3/4 morocco, marbled boards. Pp. 137, (1), iv. 52 plates, hand colored. A.e.g. Binding rubbed; lightly browned, occasional foxing, but over all a clean and fresh copy. First edition, Volume I only. Strong's Flora was erratically issued in 3 and 4 volume editions over a nine year period, with varying number of plates. Bennett notes the confusion surrounding the work, and the fact that "complete sets of any of these four early editions are extremely difficult to locate." -- p.103. A better than average, complete (truncated) copy of the first volume. Pritzel 9012.. (Inventory #: 656)