A botanical dictionary, being a translation from the French of Louis-Claude Richard, professor of botany at the medical school in Paris, with additions from Martyn, Smith, Milne, Wildenow, Acharius, &c.
New-Haven: Hezieiah Howe, 1817. First edition of the first separately published botanical dictionary in the United States, 12mo, pp. vi, [7]-14, [160]; includes the final leaf of Howe ads for botanical works; recent half calf over marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine; dampstains in gutter, some offsetting; very good and sound. The..... More