Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing generic and specific descriptions of the indigenous plants and common cultivated exotics, growing north of the Gulf of Mexico. Sixth editition. With the addition of the most approved natural arrangement of genera: also their etymologies and accentuation.
by EATON, Amos
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Albany, Oliver Steele, 1833. 8vo. 103,+ (blank),+ 401,+ (3, blanks),+ 137,+ (1) pp. Some spotting and foxing. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with beige label. Inscribed by Charlotte E. Baldwin in ink as a gift from her brother. From the library of Nils Fries, with his bookplate. Stafleu 1614. The first edition was published in 1817 and the eight and last edition come in 1840. Amos Eaton (1776-1842) was an American botanist and a great popularizer of botanical science.
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- Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing generic and specific descriptions of the indigenous plants and common cultivated exotics, growing north of the Gulf of Mexico. Sixth editition. With the addition of the most approved natural arrangement of genera: also their etymologies and accentuation.
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- EATON, Amos
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- Used
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