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Duppa, Richard. First edition of Duppa's introduction to the Linnaean classification

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DUPPA, RICHARD 

THE CLASSES AND ORDERS OF THE LINNAEAN SYSTEM OF BOTANY. ILLUSTRATED BY SELECT SPECIMENS OF FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS PLANTS. LONDON: PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY ... FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN, 1816


3 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5 3/8 in.; 229 x 137 mm). 240 engraved plates, 237 of which hand-colored. Contemporary black straight grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartment, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, brown endpapers; some wear, nicks to heads of spines, vertical cracks to spine of vol. I, hinges starting.


First edition of Duppa's attractively illustrated popular introduction to the Linnaean classification system: hand-colored issue


"This work is intended to be a complete illustration of the Linnaean system of Botany ... This work was originally begun as an amusement, and it has gradually expanded in size" (Introduction). Includes a dictionary of botanical terms and a general index. The work was published in both colored and uncolored issues.


REFERENCE:

Johnston 786; Nissen BBI 566