Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. Vol.1. - The Life and Work of Robert Wight, Vol.2. - Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: The Wight Collection. and Vol.3. - Journeys in Search of Robert Wight.

Three volume set with b/w., colour and other figs. All three volumes are softbacks in fine condition with very gently sunned spines. In a slipcase in fine condition. This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796-1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo. The first volume documents Wight's life and work as an East India Company surgeon and his major contributions to taxonomy and economic botany. The third volume is a travelogue, describing the author's journeys in search of Wight in Britain and India.