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Author:
D, R. W.
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Title:
Principia Botanica: or, A concise and easy introduction to the Sexual Botany of Linnaeus. Containing the genera; their mode of growth, (as tree, shrub, or herb;) the number of species to each genus; where principally native; and the number indigenous to the British Isles; arranged in a tabular form, under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generic distinctions. Together with three indexes. I. Of the Linnaean genera accented, with the British names. II. Of such trivial names as were the genera of old authors. III. Of the British names, with the Linnaean genera; to which are added the specific names. Also a table of vegetable drugs not in the indexes.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 714a

Edition details

Publisher:
Printed by Allin and Ridge
Place of publication:
Newark
Publishing year:
1793
Edition:
The Second Edition / corrected and enlarged, with many additional notes /[By R.W.D. i.e. Robert Waring Darwin]
Physical description:
ix, [iii], 347, [1] p. ; 21 cm.
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Language(s):
English

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Provenance:
NHM GENERAL - Bookplate of Basil Soulsby on front endpaper. Signature of Benjamin Daydon Jackson on title-page verso.
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Language notes:
In English.
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Additional author(s):
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
Darwin, Robert Waring,
1766-1848
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OPAC identifier:
9910397602081
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Includes indices.
By permission of the Trustees of The Natural History Museum (London).
NHM GENERAL - Presented by Basil H. Soulsby. 5.iii.1930 J.H. Knowles. 10/6.
NHM GENERAL - The Preface is signed R.W.D. In ink after the D has been added 'arwin'. Annotations in pencil p. 239.
NHM GENERAL - Bound 14.v.1930. 10/-. With marbled endpapers and edges.
Kohler Darwin Collection Review June 2005
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