Conversations on Botany. With plates. Sixth edition.

Published by Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828., London:, 1828

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8vo. xii, xix, [1], 278 pp. Ads., 21 hand-colored plates. Original pink boards, rebacked and with new corners, small gilt-stamped spine label. Near fine. First issued in 1817. The work is written in the form of a conversation between a mother and her son. Fitton introduces a wide array of flowering plants, offering a small amount of scientific information, often escaping the more serious details. / Fitton is known for co-authoring Conversations on Botany with her sister Elizabeth, first published in 1817. Conversations on Botany went through nine editions between 1817 and 1840. The book is composed of 18 conversations between a mother and her son that cover the principles of the Linnaean system of classification and elements of useful botany.

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Title
Conversations on Botany. With plates. Sixth edition.
Author
[FITTON, Sarah Elizabeth (ca.1796-1874); Elizabeth FITTON (fl. 1817â€"1834)].
Publisher
Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828., London:
Publication year
1828
Binding
Hardcover

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Jeff Weber Rare Books, established in 1986, relocated from California to Montreux, Switzerland in 2020. I specialize in the history of science, history of medicine, early printed books, fine printing, bibliography, Persia, fore-edge painting, scholarly books. I buy collections and do regular appraisal work.

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