With an Appendix and Glossary. pp.xxiv, 434. 12 plates as called for. 8vo. Full calf, front hionge slightly rubbed. 4th edition. Without the half title. ODNB. James Lee (1715 - 1795). About 1745 Lee and Lewis Kennedy started the Vineyard nursery in Hammersmith, on the site of a former vineyard. Lee was a correspondent of Linnaeus, who named a genus, Leea, after him. Lee's translation of Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica, under the title of Introduction to Botany ( First published 1760), was the first description of the sexual system of plants to appear in English.

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Title: AN INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. Containing anExplanation of the Theory of that Science; extracted from the Works of Dr. Linnaeus;.
Publisher: J.F. & C Rivington., London
Publication Date: 1788
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 4th Edition
Condition: Very Good

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