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A Description of the Genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other Barks of a similar quality are taken ..... To which is prefixed Professor Vahl’s Dissertation on this Genus, .... Also a Description, accompanied by figures, of a new Genus named Hyænanche: or, Hyæna Poison. |
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Printed for B. and J. White. 1779. First Edition, 4to, ix,[3],54,[2] pp., without half-title, the dedication is signed Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 13 folding etched and aquatint plates, the description of the plates is in Latin, a few spots and some minor marginal foxing, modern antique-style quarter calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, a nice copy. “What Sir Joseph Bank’s meetings were in his day, Mr. Lambert’s are at the present time; and every Saturday during the London season, his reception-rooms are crowded with persons eminent for their learning or talents, ...... Lambert is well known by his splendid work on the pine and fir tribe; and he possess the finest library of botanical works in England ....”. —Ladies’ Magazine of Gardening, by Mrs. Loudon, no. VII, p.221. This was Lambert’s first independent work and is dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks and the Linnean Society, it describes eight species, mostly from Banks’s specimens. Henrey, 919. |
