Thornton, Robert John 



Botanical extracts: or, Philosophy of Botany. 



London, 1799-1810. Printed by T. Bensley for White, Johnson & co., 



3 v., illus. engr. front; & ports. 49 cm. % calf. 



Title pag-e of v. 3 reads "Elementary botanical plates. . .par- 

 ticularly intended to illustrate Botanical Extracts; or, The 

 philosophy of botany." v. 3 contains, besides many botanic 

 plates, several engravings by well-known engravers, after fa- 

 mous artists of the day, on general subjects. Among these 

 "An angel of God revealing the plans of Providence to St. John 

 in the Island of Patmos" by Dunkarton, Jr. after Guercino, and 

 "Cupid, Flora, Ceres, and Esculapius honoring the bust of 

 Linnaeus" by Ridley after Russell and Opie (frontspiece) are 

 notable. The "Portrait of her majesty Queen Charlotte" by 

 Bartolozzi after Beechy appears opposite an elaborately en- 

 graved page dedicating the volume to her. The following por- 

 traits, showing remarkably fine work, appear abouve illustra- 

 tions of places or events connected with the scientific work of 

 each man portrayed. 



Millington Milne Darwin, Erasmus 



Grew Bonnet de Lamarck 



Tournefort Withering' de Jussieu 



Ray Curtis Shaw 



Vaillant Earl of Bute Woodville 



Linnaeus Martyn Townsend 



Rousseau Smith, Jones Edw. Jackson 



Hill Lambert Thornton 



Hales PLUtherford (the author) 



Title on backs is Thornton's Philosophy of Botany. 



Thornton, Eobert John 



The British flora; or, Genera and species of British plants; ar- 

 ranged after the reformed sexual system; and illustrated by numer- 

 ous tables and dissections. 3 v. 



London, 1812. Printed for author by J. Whiting (5 v. in 1, text) & 

 (v. 2&3 illus. & col. pi.) 26 cm. % lea. rebound. 

 A "reformed scheme" of the Linnaean systein. 



Thornton, Robert John 



A new illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus. 



London, 1799-1807, unpaged, engr. front. & 2 explanatory pages of 



engraved text at end. 49 cm. % caif. 



Fine large paper edition. Magnificent engravings of plants, 

 flowers, and structure plants. 



Diagrams and details illustrative of the Linnaean system. 2 

 extra title pages near back of volume, one entitled "The Phil- 

 osophy of botany" and the other "The genera of exotic and in- 

 digenous plants that are to be met with in Great Britain ar- 

 ranged according- to tlie reformed system." Tlie only type used 

 is that on tlie half-title pages preceding- and naining each class 

 illustrated. 2 double-page engravings of "Gathering tea" by 

 Sutherland after Sang-so, and "Taching, or firing, of tea" by 

 Sutherland after Wo-siong. The frontspiece is an engraving of 

 "Cupid inspiring plants with love" by Bartolozzi and Landseer 

 after Reinagle. Main title-page (A new illustration) bears in- 

 scription Vol. IV, and the binding entitles it "Thornton's phil- 

 osophy of botany, Vol. IV." 

 The paper and the engraving are remarkable in quality. 



Waterhouse, Benjamin 



The Botanist; being the botanical part of a course of lectures on 



natural history, delivered in the university of Cambridge; together 



with a discourse on the principle of vitality. 



Boston, 1811. Joseph T. Buckingham, 263 p. 211/2 cm. lea. 



Taken from the first lectures of any importance given on natural 

 history in the United States. They were delivered in 1788, and 

 published in the Monthly Anthology, Boston, 1801. The author 

 was an authority on his subject, being a member of many 

 learned societies both in America and abroad, and during the 

 time of delivering them held the professorship of Theory and 

 Practice of Physic in the University of Cambridge. It was from 



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