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1st edition, 1821 . Book size - 8.5 x 5.25 inches, pp.xx + 242 + 21 b&w plates, hardback, half leather binding. Book condition - Good ; front paste-down and flyleaf with numerous pencil inscriptions of plant and fern species (please see photo), bookplate of 'Neath Museum Library' inside front board, title page dusty with some staining at top and bottom front corners, remainder of preliminaries generally clean with a few patches of foxing, remainder of textblock clean with no inscriptions and occasional tanning, plates dusty with some foxing on some plates and last few plates with top edge affected by water staining though this doesn't affect the illustrations, the final twenty pages (the index) clean but some with tanning, the back flyleaf a bit marked and with an erased pencil list of numbers still visible, inner hinges split but boards remaining very secure ; boards' corners firm but with some wear and small losses, boards' edges sound with some rubbing of marbled paper, back of good appearance with some surface rubbing and slight loss at the bottom corner, spine has been re-backed with a good section of the original laid on - the re-back calf is a good colour match with the original, original title label complete and bright, the joins at the hinges between the new spine leather and the boards' leather is visible but sound, front board of clean appearance though with some surface rubbing of the paper. Please see photos for indications of condition and contents. A copy showing its age and usage over the last two hundred years, but with a recent refurbishment remaining a sound copy. Sir James Edward Smith ( 1759 - 1828) was an eminent English botanist, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world and in the early 1780s he enrolled in the medical course at the University of Edinburgh where he studied chemistry. He then moved to London in 1783 to continue his studies. Smith was a friend of Sir Joseph Banks, who was offered the entire collection of books, manuscripts and specimens of Carl Linnaeus following the death of his son Linnaeus the Younger. Banks declined the purchase, but Smith bought the collection for the bargain price of £1,000. The collection arrived in London in 1784 and in 1785 Smith was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He founded the Linnean Society of London in 1788, becoming its first President, a post he held until his death. (Abbreviated biographical information from Wikipedia - see there for a fuller account ). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2521
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