Figures of the most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in The Gardener's 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 Linnaeus's Method

Philip Miller

Verlag: Printed for the Author, London, 1760

Beschreibung

Two volume set. Original full speckled calf professionally rebacked in calf; pastedowns renewed; fly sheets and title mounted. Complete with 300 full-page hand-colored copper plates (2 folding). Miller was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, where many of the engravings were made under his supervision. Drawings were taken from living plants at their greatest expression of flowering. A high point in botany. ; 200; [iv] pages. 10.75 x 16.25 inches; 27 x 41.4 cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7686

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Figures of the most Beautiful, Useful, and ...

Verlag: Printed for the Author, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1760

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition.