Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady / by J.J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn. B.D.F.R. & L. SS., Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
- Date:
- 1815
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London : Printed for White, Cochran, and Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, B. Crosby and Co., and Gale, Curtis and Fenner, 1815.
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xx, 434 pages : folded table ; (8vo)
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The eighth edition /
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First published in London, 1785; Rousseau's letters were published in his collected works under the title: Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique à Madame de L***. Cf. Pritzel, no. 7824; Hunt Cat., no. 687, for 2d ed.
Copy 1 Note: p. i-ii (half-title?) wanting. With bookplate of General Sir Harry Calvert. T.p. inscribed 'Mary & Emily Calvert' and, in another hand, 'From Princess Augusta'.
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