A letter from Dr. Ducarel, F.R.S. and F.S.A. to William Watson, M.D. F.R.S. upon the early cultivation of botany in England; and some particulars about John Tradescant, a great promoter of that science, as well as natural history, in the last century, and gardener to King Charles I.

  • Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713-1785.
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M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]
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London : printed by W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]

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12 pages, folded plates ; (4to)

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ESTC T13073
Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 4951

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Copy 1 Note: Ducarel's own copy with his book-plate and autograph MS. notes. Bound in are a MS. copy (3 ℓ.) of Mrs. Tradescant's 'Submission to Elias Ashmole' (1676), and Tradescant's 'Musaeum Tradescantianum' (London, 1656) mounted on single leaves.

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