English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth : to which will be added, occasional remarks
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Type of record: Book
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth : to which will be added, occasional remarks
Classmark: Early Science 5 1790/SOW
Creator(s): Sowerby, James (1757-1822)
Additional creator(s): Smith, Sir James Edward (1759-1828) (Other)
Related people: Smith, James Edward
Publisher: Printed for the author, by J. Davis
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1790-1814
Language: English
Size and medium: 36 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/251747
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015993459705181
Description
Includes 2592 handcolored engraved leaves of plates.
Starting with v. 4 the t.p. reads: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth: to which will be added, occasional remarks / by James Edward Smith; the figures by James Sowerby.
Includes indexes.
Pritzel (2nd ed.) 8789.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication by Sowerby in a volume lettered: Sowerby's Botany vols XXXV-XXXVI. Volume contents: 1. English botany or coloured figures of British plants vols 35-36, 1813-14 -- 2. General indexes to the thirty-six volumes of English botany, 1814
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