The botanist's repository, for new and rare plants :
containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom /
the whole executed by Henry Andrews ...
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London :
Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... :
1797-[1815]
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| Notes: | Text of v. 1-5 "probably written by John Kennedy ..., v. 6 by A. Haworth, v. 7-10 by George Jackson" (cf. Stafleu). Printed t.p. present in v. 1 only; engraved title pages lack imprint. Originally issued in 137 monthly parts (cf. ESTC). Includes index. Physical description: 10 v., 664 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 30 cm. (4to) Citations/References: ESTC, T88189 Citations/References: Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.), 135 Title from engraved t.p.: Botanist's repository, comprising colour'd engravings of new and rare plants only more |