A Handbook of Field Botany, Comprising the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to the British Isles, Arranged According to The Natural System. The Orders, Genera, and Species, Carefully Analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination. Author inscribed.

Steele, William E.

Published by Dublin: James McGlashan, 1847

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Crown8vo, frontis, xxix, 249 pp. Original green blind-stamped cloth, gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Backstrip faded, some foxing otherwise a VG+ tight copy signed 'To the Right Honble Sir Wm. M. Somerville Bart with Dr. Steele's Compts. Oct 29th 1847' on the front pastedown. First edition. Somerville was much respected in Ireland as a resident landlord; his large estates lay in the county of Meath. He became Baron Meredyth of Dollardstown, Co. Meath in 1866.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Handbook of Field Botany, Comprising the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous to the British Isles, Arranged According to The Natural System. The Orders, Genera, and Species, Carefully Analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination. Author inscribed.
• Publisher: Dublin: James McGlashan
• Publication Date: 1847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)