Balfour, John Hutton (1808-1884)

Botanical lectures. Author's holograph MSS. Inside the upper cover of Vol. III is a pasted-in visiting card, inscribed 'Professor Balfour/Royal Botanic Garden/Edinburgh'. Produced in Edinburgh.

1845

3 volumes 3 vols. 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. Original half-calf binding. With the writer's book-plate, which is also used, pasted on the spines, as a cover-title.

Purchased 1913.

The author was professor of botany at Glasgow University in 1841, and at Edinburgh in 1845.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).