The cyclopædia of useful & ornamental plants used in the arts, in medicine, and for ornament, with a scientific and popular description of each plant, and an account of its uses and mode of culture; interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and numerous coloured engravings / by the late Gilbert Thomas Burnett. Revised and edited by Roderick Elphinstone.

BURNETT, Gilbert; ELPHINSTONE, Roderick.

Verlag: London: James Sangster and co., 1850

Quarto. No date. Circa 1850-1860. Pp [iv], 481 [1], [2] (Index). Leaf 1* a cancel for 1-2; also 72* cancel leaf present between 72-73. Twenty very attractive hand-coloured plates as listed, title page a little dusty, final plate chipped to foot, frontis chipped to fore-edge and little dusty, recent quarter morocco on cloth boards. All illustrations present and clean overall. An interesting work, which attempts to explore the chemical and practical properties of each plant under consideration, drawing on a very wide geographical range of plant material. The hand-coloured plates list the: Almond tree; Arum; Bread-fruit tree; Camellia; Camphor Tree; Clove spice; Coffee Tree; Cotton Tree; Lemon Tree; Lily, showy; Mushroom; Nutmeg; Peach; Pomegranate; Poppy, white; Quassia; Quince tree; Rose-bay (Rhodedendrum); Rose, Moss; Saffron. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers D098900

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Titel: The cyclopædia of useful & ornamental plants...
Verlag: London: James Sangster and co.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1850
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good