Milleria annua, erecta, folijs conjugatis floribus spicatis luteis Houstoun

by John Martyn

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine plate from Martyn's 'Historia plantarum rariorum', the first botanical book to be illustrated with colour-printed plates. A professor of botany at Cambridge and one of the founders of the London Botanical Society, John Martyn is renowned for his great work Historia Plantarum Rariorum 1728-1737 . Devoted to new species cultivated at the Chelsea Physic Garden and Cambridge Botanic Garden, Pulteney proclaims this work to be the most sumptuous and magnificent work of

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