First Edition, First Printing; green c w/gilt titles; 255 clean, unmarked pages; A fascinating and carefully researched biography of the first botanist to seriously record the native plants of Scotland. In addition to a study of his tour of Scotland, and of the publication of 'Flora Scotica', there are chapters on Lightfoot's tours of Devon and Cornwall, and Wales. The book is enhanced by a fine biographical introduction, and a meticulous catalogue of the Lightfoot Herbarium, held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Title: John Lightfoot: His Work and Travels with a Biographical Introduction and a Catalogue of the lightfoot Herbarium [Signed by Author]
Publisher: Carnegie mellon University; Bentham-Moxon Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Frontis
Edition: 1st
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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