Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnæus's system of vegetables, . and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany. By Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R. & L.S.S. ...
Thomas Martyn (1735-1825)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3053978
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi,72p., 38 plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Uniform with Rousseau's 'Letters on the elements of botany', 8th ed., 1815. Prev. 40.A.15. Provenance: Signature on title page: Caroline Brownlow 1818 [= Caroline Cust, countess Brownlow (1793/4-1824), 2nd wife of 1st earl Brownlow]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half olive morocco, marbled paper sides. Spine lettered: 'Plates to Rousseaus Botany'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Martyn (1735-1825) Carl von Linné (1707-1778) Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.1770 - d.1800) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)