The Free Libraries. 295 



A.D. 



innumerable figures, old-fashioned, but bold, 

 characteristic, and very curious. P. P. 



1750. Rumphius: Herbarium Amboinense. Six vols., 

 folio. Full of fine old plates. City, Chet. 



1755. C. Plumier: Plantarum Americanarum Fasciculus. 

 Folio. Full of fine old copperplates. City. 



1757-1773. Elizabeth Blackwell: Herbarium. Six vols., 

 folio. Containing 60 1 coloured plates of 

 economic plants, every one of them drawn and 

 engraved by herself, in order to raise money to 

 liberate her husband from a debtor's prison. 

 Chet. 



1759-1775. Sir John Hill: The Vegetable System. 

 Twenty-six folio volumes. With 1,600 copper- 

 plates, containing 6,560 figures. City, P. P. 

 (The latter bound in ten vols.) 



1760. Philip Miller: Figures of Plants. Two vols., folio., 

 and new edit, in four vols., 1807. Chet. (An 

 admirable work, with 300 plates.) 



1766-1797. G. C. GEder: Flora Danica. Eleven vols., 

 folio, with 1,200 plates. City. 



1770. John Edwards: Herbal. A thin folio of 100 

 beautiful coloured plates. Chef., P. P. 



1772. N. J. Jacquin : Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis. 

 Two vols., folio. Full of the most beautiful 

 coloured plates. Chet. 



