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. Seller Inventory # 009092

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Title: John Lightfoot: His Work and Travels with a ...

Publisher: Carnegie mellon University; Bentham-Moxon Trust, Pittsburgh, PA

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Frontis

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st

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