Botanical lectures / by a lady ; altered from "Botanical dialogues for the use of schools," and adapted to the use of persons of all ages, by the same author

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Notes: The "Advertisement" is signed at end (p. iv, 1st group): M.E.J. [i.e. Maria Elizabeth Jackson], Oct. 1, 1803.; The plates are numbered according to the two parts of the lectures, i.e.: plate 1, part I; plate 2, part I; plate 3, part I; plate 4, part I; plate 5, part I; plate 6, part I; plate 1, part II; plate 2, part II; plate 3, part II; plate 4, part II; and plate 5, part II.; Also available online.; SCNHRB copy is bound with: Willdenow, Karl Ludwig. The principles of botany, and of vegetable physiology. Edinburgh : Printed at the University Press, for William Blackwood, and T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1805. Bound together subsequent to publication.; SCNHRB copy has the ms. ink autograph of a former owner on p. iv of the first work [i.e. Willdenow]: Harriet Maxwell, July 22, 1828; with printed labels of another former owner on front paste-down endpaper: Jerry Stannard, Boulder, Colo. and Lawrence, Kansas.; SCNHRB copy has a bookseller's printed label on front paste-down endpaper: John Reid & Co., importers of classical & oriental books ... Glasgow.; SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.; SCNHRB copy has a later gilt-tooled half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, endpapers, and edges.; Elecresource

Author: Jackson, Maria Elizabeth; Jackson, Maria Elizabeth Botanical dialogues
former owner: Maxwell, Harriet fl. 1828 DSI; Stannard, Jerry DSI
bookseller: John Reid & Co. DSI

Physical description: iv, xxix, [1], 243 p., [11] leaves of plates in various foliations : ill. ; 22 cm