A Flora of the State of New-York, Comprising Full Descriptions of All the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants Hitherto Discovered in the State; with Remarks on Their Economical and Medicinal Properties, in 2 volumes (the hand-colored plate version)

Pp. (4), xii, 484; (4), 572, with 162 hand-colored lithographed plates (72 color plates in volume 1 and 90 color plates in volume 2), one hand-colored plate is long and folding, there is a steel-engraved series title page in each volume.  Publisher’s original dark brown cloth, ornately blind-stamped and gilt-decorated with a gilt flower bush emblazoned on the front cover and a gilt fern at the base of the spine, original clay-coated yellow endpapers, steel-engraved series title page in each volume, lg 4to.  This is the classic work on the flora of New York State by the leading authority on the botany of the northeastern United States, John Torrey.