Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the gardeners dictionary exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their descriptions, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnæus's method of classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea. In two volumes
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
printed for the author; and sold by John and Francis Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, J. Whiston, J. Hinton, T. Longman, B. White, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, and J. Dodsley
1771, M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, N7195. - Henrey, 1098. - Reproduction of original from Library of Congress |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (2v.(vi,100,[2],101-200,[4]p.),plates) 2° |