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Author/Creator:

Newton, James, 1670?-1750

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A compleat herbal of the late James Newton, M.D.: containing the prints and the English names of several thousand trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, exotics, &c.: all curiously engraved on copper-plates [by Newton, J.]

Subjects:

Botany — Pre-Linnean works

Botany

Genres:

Early works

General Notes:

Spine title: Newton's herbal.
Engraved frontispiece.
Includes index.
Henrey, Blanche. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. No. 1163. "No plate numbered 1 appears ever to have been issued."
Bound in full tree-calf. Spine repaired, original(?) label retained.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 176, that is, 175 pagesleaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 20 cm

Physical Characteristics:

engraving

Call Numbers:

QK41 .N48 1752

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

agr20000143

OCLC Numbers:

1001119758
5005068 [Invalid]