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Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady
by Martyn, Thomas, translator (J.J. Rousseau)
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About This Item
London, 1787 and 1788: For B. White. Octavo. 2nd edition. Translated into English from the French of J.J. Rousseau with notes and twenty-four additional letters fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. Two books in one. First part: Half-title, 500pp., [28]pp index, page 16 is mis-numbered 6. An additional title page dated 1788 titled "Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations. This set of plates was intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany in the University of Cambridge". All hand-colored plates present and one folding table. These plates, by F.P. Nodder, were not included with the first or second editions. They were later published to be added to the those editions and subsequent editions making them the first edition of plates with text. Bound together in a handsome 20th century 1/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards with vellum corners, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. An exceptionally nice copy with glue ghost to front pastedown from bookplate?. p. xxv numbered. See [ESTC T69543; T137987].
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- 021580
- Title
- Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady
- Author
- Martyn, Thomas, translator (J.J. Rousseau)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- For B. White
- Place of Publication
- London, 1787 and 1788
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hand Colored Plates Flowers Botany Botanicals Plants; Vbf
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled Paper
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- Vellum
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
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- Title Page
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