A BOTANICAL DICTIONARY, BEING A TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH OF LOUIS-CLAUDE RICHARD, PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL IN PARIS; WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS FROM MARTIN, SMITH, MILNE, WILLDENOW, ACHARIUS, MUHLENBERG, ELLIOT, NUTTALL, PURSH, AND OTHERS
1819 · New Have
by Eaton, Amo
New Have, 1819. 191pp. Contemporary plain boards, expertly rebacked with new calf spine, red leather label. Bit tanned. Very good. Ex-Horticultural Society of New York, with bookplate noting Kenneth K. Mackenzie's bequest of the book. Second edition, after the first of 1817. Eaton, a great popularizer of botanical science, was a respected botanist and educator, surveyor of Albany and Rensselaer counties, and later of the district along the Erie Canal, under the patronage of Stephen Van Rensselaer. Eaton was also instrumental in the establishment of the New York State Geological Survey in 1836. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1615 (Inventory #: WRCAM23502)