Grammar Botany Containing Explanation System by Robert John Thornton M D (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Full-Leather. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Illustrated with 45 engravings. Good to Good Minus. Leather heavily worn, rubbed, and with few moderate stains, and quarter-size scar to upper portion of cover near spine, but intact; chip to head of spine; gilt-over-black spine label rubbed but readable. Dampstain upper corner first few pages; foxing throughout; prior owner signature on front endpaper. Binding tight, signatures intact.

Hardcover. Forty Five Engravings (illustrator). First American Edition. Copyright Date: 1812 12mo, Hardcover, New Full Calf Brown Leather Binding, Gilt Lettered And Decorated Spine, Resown With New End Papers Added; A Beautiful Professional Binding, 1818, PP.iv, 317, Spine Is Labeled As the Original Binding was, Thornton s Botany 1818; Dr. Thornton (1768? - 1837) Was An English Medical Doctor Who Is Is Most Famous For His Three Volume Botanical Extracts: The Philosophy Of Botany IN Three Volumes. The Final Volume Of The Set Has Become famous As The Temple Of Flora. The Botanical Extracts Publication Project Was Issued In Parts From 1797 Thru 1807; Thornton s Support Of The Linnean System Of Botanical Classification Through This Book No Doubt Further Cemented It s eventual Worldwide Scientific Community acceptance in the 19th Century Contents Solid With Light To Heavy Foxing To Text Block, Less So To Plate Illustrations 12mo, Hardcover, New Full Calf Brown Leather Binding, Gilt Lettered And Decorated Spine, Resown With New End Papers Added; A Beautiful Professional Binding.