Text unpaginated. 56 engraved hand-colored plates after drawings by E.D. Smith, each with descriptive letterpress. Plate 25 with watermark dated 1855.(8vo) 10x6¼, original green cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down.

Rare monograph on the flora of Australia, handsomely illustrated with color plates. "[Robert Sweet] worked under his half-brother James Sweet at Ham Green near Bristol c. 1798 and then in the nursery founded by James Sweet until c. 1807. Nurseryman with William Malcolm, Stockwell, 1810-15; foreman at Colvill's, Chelsea, 1819-26." - Desmond. He was the author of "Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis," "Hortus Britannicus," "Botanical Cultivator," "The British Flower Garden," "Geraniaceae," "Cistineae," "The Florist's Guide," "The British Warblers," etc. Sweet grew all of the plants illustrated in this work, so they were drawn from living plants.