Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnæus's System of Vegetables, and Particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany

by Thomas Martyn

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

vi, 2 , 72pp, plus 38 engraved and hand colored plates by F.P. Nodder. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine abraded and front joint starting. Internally very good. Dunthorne 195; Henrey 1031; Hunt 732; Nissen 1292. Item #321058 Issued to accompany and English edition of Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany addressed to a Lady. The present example the preferred hand colored issue.

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