Letters on the Elements of Botany. Addressed to a Lady. Translated into English, with Notes, and Twenty-Four Additional Letters fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, Second Edition, 1787-88, 2 volumes including plate volume
London: Printed for B. White, 1787-1788. Hardcover. Second Edition, with corrections and improvements, 1787, 2 volumes, 8vo, flame calf, xxv (1) 500 (28) pp, with folding table at p,. 108; plate volume has 72 pp of text, 38 hand colored plates, 2 pp ads. Very good to fine with light expected rubbing to joints, a very handsome set indeed, ownership signature of a Marianne Ellis on title page from 1791, and her initials on second volume. Near Fine. Item #H2929
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