Niger flora; or an enumeration of the plants of Western tropical Africa, collected by the late Dr. Theodore Vogel, botanist to the voyage of the expedition sent by Her Britannic Majesty to the river Niger in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter, R.N., &c. Including Spicilegia Gorgonea, by P. B. Webb, Esq., and Flora Nigritiana, by Dr. J. D. Hooker, R.N., F.R.S., and George Bentham, Esq. With a sketch of the life of Dr. Vogel. Edited by Sir W. J. Hooker ... With two views, a map, and fifty plates.
Sir William Jackson Hooker, KH FRS FRSE FLS (1785-1865)
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3149929
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1],587,[1]p., [3],50 plates (some folded) . ill.., map . 8vo.. Binding: Nineteenth-century full green grained cloth binding; blind border; spine blind decorated and gilt lettered.
Makers and roles
Sir William Jackson Hooker, KH FRS FRSE FLS (1785-1865) George Bentham (1800-1884) Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) Philip Barker Webb (1793 - 1854)