8to
1839 · London
by LINDLEY, John (1799-1865)
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1839. 8to. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). Third edition. [i]-xi 1-570 1-32. 614 pp. With six copper-plate engraved plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Title, Preface, Contents, Books I-IV, Appendix, Explanation of the plates, Index, Bookseller's catalogue. Publisher's green cloth boards ruled in blind and pictorially blind-stamped on both boards, gilt-stamped title on spine, bookplate on front pastedown
Thorough reference by the eminent English botanist John Lindley in superlative condition, with six engravings of plant parts in a very fine original cloth binding.
Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, Lindley is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the "natural" system of Jussieu rather than the Linnaean, Lindley writes, in his preface to the present work, that it was originally created for his own use, to avoid having recourse to "rare, costly and expensive publications" available only in the libraries of the wealthy. His intention was to give a "systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution of the whole vegetable kingdom," as well as of the uses of plants "in medicine, the arts, and rural or domestic economy." The work is important in the history of taxonomy.
OCLC 2693487. Pritzel 5352. Stafleu and Cowan 4646. (Inventory #: 41011)
Thorough reference by the eminent English botanist John Lindley in superlative condition, with six engravings of plant parts in a very fine original cloth binding.
Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, Lindley is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the "natural" system of Jussieu rather than the Linnaean, Lindley writes, in his preface to the present work, that it was originally created for his own use, to avoid having recourse to "rare, costly and expensive publications" available only in the libraries of the wealthy. His intention was to give a "systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution of the whole vegetable kingdom," as well as of the uses of plants "in medicine, the arts, and rural or domestic economy." The work is important in the history of taxonomy.
OCLC 2693487. Pritzel 5352. Stafleu and Cowan 4646. (Inventory #: 41011)