Essai sur les cryptogames des écorces exotiques officinales : précédé d'une méthode lichénographique, et d'un genera, avec des considérations sur la reproduction des agames : orné de 33 planches coloriés, donnant plus de 130 figures de plantes cryptogames nouvelles ; dédié à l'Académie Royale de Médecine / par A.-L.-A. Fée.
Publication details: Paris : Firmin Didot père et fils, 1824. Description: [8], civ, 167 p., 34 leaves of plates : 130 illustrations (mostly colour)Subject(s): Medicinal Plants -- 18th-19th century | Cryptogams | Lichens | Botany -- 18th-19th century | Cinchona| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Early Printed Book
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RPS Library Howard Collection | 582.29 FEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | John Eliot Howard Bequest | 227799 |
Includes indexes.
Presented by Lt.-Col. E.S.G. Howard of Stroud, son and executor of the late A.G. Howard and great-grandson of the collector, March 1952. Formerly belonging to the late John Eliot Howard.
Previously owned by John Eliot Howard.
John Eliot Howard Bequest 1952 inscribed on Pharmaceutical Society Bookplate. Manuscript inscription on flyleaf: "As every river can conduct us to the sea, so every creature points us to an ocean of Infinite Wisdom. Not the minutest of them, but rich tracts of this may be observed in them, and a due sense of God result from them." Charnock on the Wisdon of God, p.257. JEH. Previous Accession Number: 44737. Previous Classmark: 615.7:58. Previous location: Basement Store Shelf 47.5.