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Flora londinensis: or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnaeus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural economy and other arts.

Accession number
PML 46440-45
Creator
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.
Published
London, Printed for and sold by the author, 1777-98.
Credit line
Gift of Junius S. Morgan and Henry S. Morgan, 1954.
Notes
Plates engr. by William Kilburn (1745-1818), F. Sansom (fl. 1788-90) after Sydenham Teak Edwards (1769?-1819), J. Swan (fl. 1777-98), vol. 5 with 72 plates all drawn and engr. by James Sowerby (1757-1822).
Originally issued in 6 fascicles, to be bound as 2 v.
Title page for v. 1 in fasc. 1; t.p. for v.2 in fasc. 6.
Plates are numbered in ms. in each fascicle.
W. Darby, 1783, in ms. on p. [2] of cover of fasc. 1-3.
"A catalogue of certain plants, growing wild, chiefly in the environs of Settle, in Yorkshire, observed by W. Curtis, in a six weeks botanical excursion from London, made at the request of J.C. Lettsom, M.D.F.R.S. &c. in the months of July and August, 1782": [6] p. at end of fasc. 4.
Title vignette.
First ed.
Engr. title-vignettes.
The flowers depicted are life size; 434 plates hand colored.
Three-quarter calf.
Description
6 fasc. 433 col. plates. 51 cm.
Provenance
Armorial exlibris of Granville Richard Ryder. W. Darby inscriptions. From the collections of Jane Norton Grew Morgan (Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr.) and her sons Henry S. and Junius S. Morgan.
Classification
Department