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The Sloane Herbarium. An annotated list of the Horti Sicci comprising it; with biographical accounts of the principal contributors. Based on records compiled by the late James Britten. With an introduction by Spencer Savage

By: Dandy, J.E.

Price: £85.00

Publisher: London, The Trustees of the British Museum: 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015297

Condition: As New

Illustrated (mainly with reproductions of the original manuscript), quarto, pp 246, an immaculate copy, virtually as new. Still with the plain white protective paper cover which is a bit worn and torn. [Sir Hans Sloane, (1660 - 1753), was an Irish physician, naturalist and collector noted for bequeathing his collection of 71,000 items to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library and the Natural History Museum, London. The Sloane Herbarium contains volumes of plant specimens collected on Sloane's voyage to Jamaica (1687-1689). During his voy...
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Watsonian Vice-Counties of Great Britain (two Map set)

By: Dandy, J.E.

Price: £7.95

Publisher: London, The Ray Society: 1969

Seller ID: 004777

Binding: Paperback in slipcase

Condition: Very Good

Two large folding maps, with 38 page booklet, very good condition in a slightly worn and faded slipcase. [A vice-county is a geographical division of the British Isles used for the purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering. It is sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced for Great Britain, its offshore islands, and the Isle of Man, by Hewett Cottrell Watson who first used them in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica published in 1852. Watson's vice-counties were based on the ancient counties of Britain, but often subdividing thes...
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Author:Dandy, J.E

The Sloane Herbarium. An annotated list of the Horti Sicci comprising it; with biographical accounts of the principal contributors. Based on records compiled by the late James Britten. With an introduction by Spencer Savage

Watsonian Vice-Counties of Great Britain (two Map set)

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