Robert John Thornton. Mezzotint.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving, 1807.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by Holl, 1813, after J. Russell.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1803, after J. Russell.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by B. Thomson, 1808, after G. H. Harlow.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by S. Freeman, 1809, after W. J. Newton.

Robert John Thornton, and the entrance to Guy's Hospital. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1799, after J. Russell, and W. Woolnoth after J. Elmes.

A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].

New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus : comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification ; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants, a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system ; and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of nature, being Picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions ; [motto: 4 lines] / by Robert John Thornton.

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Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837), physician to Marylebone Dispensary and botanist

This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

Dr. Thornton's medical, botanical, and political works. I. The philosophy of medicine: or Medical extracts, on the nature of health and disease, ... the fourth edition, ... II. Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: ... III. A new illustration of the sexual system. ... IV. The politician's creed: or political extracts: ... These works may be had of the following booksellers: H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-row.

On the 1st of August 1803, will be published, ... number I. of Plants of Great Britain; arranged after the reformed sexual system of Sir Charles Linnaeus; ... And on the same day will be published, ... number I. of An introduction to the science of botany. By Robert John Thornton, M.D.

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Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837), physician to Marylebone Dispensary and botanist

This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

On the 1st of August 1803, will be published, ... number I. of Plants of Great Britain; arranged after the reformed sexual system of Sir Charles Linnaeus; ... And on the same day will be published, ... number I. of An introduction to the science of botany. By Robert John Thornton, M.D.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by Holl, 1813, after J. Russell.

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Thornton, Robert John (1768?-1837), physician to Marylebone Dispensary and botanist

This day is published, in four handsome volumes octavo, ... A new edition ... of Medical extracts, on the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems; with practical observations: by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

On the 1st of August 1803, will be published, ... number I. of Plants of Great Britain; arranged after the reformed sexual system of Sir Charles Linnaeus; ... And on the same day will be published, ... number I. of An introduction to the science of botany. By Robert John Thornton, M.D.

Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by Holl, 1813, after J. Russell.