A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain 2 Volume Set
A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain 2 Volume Set
$101.00
USDThis two-volume milestone work, published in 1776, was the first major publication of William Withering (1741–99), a physician who had also trained as an apothecary (his Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses is also reissued in this series). The first systematic botanical guide to British native plants, the present work uses and extends the Linnaean system of classification, but renders the genera and species 'familiar to those who are unacquainted with the Learned Languages'. Withering offers 'an easy introduction to the study of botany', explaining the markers by which the plants are classified in a particular genus, and giving advice on preserving specimens, but the bulk of the work consists of botanical descriptions (in English) of the appearance, qualities, varieties, common English names, and uses of hundreds of plants. The book continued to be revised and reissued for almost a century after Withering's death.
Product details
March 2015Multiple copy pack
9781108075893
968 pages
221 × 147 × 58 mm
1.22kg
12 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: The design
- An easy introduction to the study of botany
- Abbreviations
- Index
- 1. One chive
- 2. Two chives
- 3. Three chives
- 4. Four chives
- 5. Five chives
- 6. Six chives
- 7. Seven chives
- 8. Eight chives
- 9. Nine chives
- 10. Ten chives
- 11. Twelve chives
- 12. Twenty chives
- 13. Many chives
- 14. Two chives longer. Volume 2:
- 15. Four chives longer
- 16. Threads united
- 17. Threads in two sets
- 18. Threads in many sets
- 19. Tips united
- 20. Chives on the pointal
- 21. Chives and pointals separate
- 22. Chives and pointals distinct
- 23. Various dispositions upon one plant
- 24. Flowers inconspicuous
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Latin terms
- Plates.
