The British Flora; comprising the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and the Ferns ... Bound with: Characters of Genera, Extracted from the British Flora

by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

$800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary smooth tan calf, a bit scuffed. First edition of Hooker's British Flora, bound with a scarce separately printed related work. First published here in 1830, Hooker's British Flora would go through eight editions by 1860. The object which the Author proposed to himself, in preparing a new Flora of the British Empire, was a twofold nature firstly, to provide the young Student with a description of our native plants, arranged according to the simplest

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