The Language of Botany: being a Dictionary of the Terms made use of in that Science, principally by Linneus: with Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms. The whole Interspersed with Critical Remarks.

MARTYN, Thomas.

Published by for B. and J. White,, London, 1793

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First edition. The Language of Botany was reprinted in 1796. Martyn was Cambridge professor of botany for sixty-three years and the first reader of botany following the foundation of the Cambridge botanical garden. 8vo (195 × 122 mm), pp. [iii]-xxviii, 324 (bound without half-title). Occasional light soiling or staining. Uncut in nineteenth-century green morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Slightly rubbed. A very good copy. [Henrey, British botanical and horticultural Literature before 1800, 1026].

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• Title: The Language of Botany: being a Dictionary of the Terms made use of in that Science, principally by Linneus: with Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms. The whole Interspersed with Critical Remarks.
• Publisher: for B. and J. White,, London
• Publication Date: 1793
• Binding: Hardcover
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