...ICONES PLANTARUM ASIATICARUM. PART IV. DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS...
by Griffith, William
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Calcutta, 1854.. [2],xii pp. plus 311 plates. Large quarto. Original green printed wrappers bound into modern vellum. Very good. The fourth volume only of Griffith's posthumously published work on Indian botany, arranged by John M'Clelland and printed by the government of Bengal. Griffith (1810-45), a physician and botanist, served in the British Colonial Service in Bengal and as assistant surgeon at Madras, and contributed greatly to the herbarium of the East India Company. An interesting illustrated work from a 19th-century Indian press, complete in itself in treating this class of botany. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 2169. NISSEN 759. PRITZEL 3568.
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- ...ICONES PLANTARUM ASIATICARUM. PART IV. DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS...
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- Griffith, William
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- Calcutta
- Date Published
- 1854.
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...