(BOTANICAL) Thornton Robert John A New Illustration of the S

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(BOTANICAL.) Thornton, Robert John. A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus. Vol. I. [2], 200 pages. Engraved title, 90 engraved plates and tables. Folio, 485x350 mm, early 1/2 calf, very worn, covers loose; scattered browning, principally at sheet edges, but often bleeding a short distance within the platemark, portrait plates dampstained in lower left corner, other minor faults. London, 1799-1805

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Quite possibly a composite of several Thornton monographs. Volume includes an engraved title for The Genera of Exotic and Indigenous Plants and a sectional title for The Philosophy of Botany, both bound at the rear. Of the botanical plates, some appear in Dunthorne's list of the volumes contents (Dunthorne 303), but many do not. Included are 19 (of 25) of the portrait plates of botanists and scientists. They are the only plates dampstained in the lower left, suggesting that they are from another copy.