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Welsh Botanology;
by DAVIES Hugh 1739?-1821
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Ingram Court, Fenchurch Street: Hugh Davies, 1813. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. G, 8vo, 1st ed, 1 pl, 1813. In the publishers scruffy blue boards, corners & edges bumped & worn. Spine, worn, printed paper label. Internally, [3], (iv-xiv), [2] errata, [1], 2-151, [1]. [3], (iv-xv), [1], 153-247, [1], [1], 250-255 pp, [1], 1 pl, many leaves uncut, top edge cut, remainder not. (232*142 mm). (Libri Walliae 1549. Pritzel 77. Jackson 247. Camden Hotten 8). Title continues: part the first. A systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Angelsey, in Latin, English and Welsh ... To which is added, an appendix, consisting of those genera, in the three first volumes of Flora Brittanica, which are not of spontaneous growth in Anglesey, rendered likewise into Welsh. DAVIES, cleric and author. Material found in Welsh Botanology is quoted by Alphonse de Candolle in Geographic botanique raisonnée (Paris, 1855). In 1801 he published a pamphlet, Cyngor Difrif Periglor i'w Blwyfolion, against the Methodists; a reply by Thomas Charles appeared in 1802. See NLW WBO.
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007006
- Title
- Welsh Botanology;
- Author
- DAVIES Hugh 1739?-1821
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hugh Davies
- Place of Publication
- London: Ingram Court, Fenchurch Street
- Date Published
- 1813
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.99 lbs
- Keywords
- Welsh Botany Wales Anglesey
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening plants cultivation Floral Agriculture;
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