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22 unnumbered pages, 144 pages, 32 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : illustrations

An idea of a phytological history propounded : together with a continuation of the anatomy of vegetables, particularly prosecuted upon roots : and an account of the vegetation of roots grounded chiefly thereupon / by Nehemiah Grew.

Encyclopédie Bouasse-Lebel

1 print : process print, printed in colour (?) ; border 55.7 x 72 cm

Botanical classification; 227 figures of plant anatomical segments with descriptive text. Colour process print (?).

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.6 x 19.4 cm

Fifteen different forms of plant root and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.

Pflanzenreich

A plant root cut to show growth rings, wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and a root tip. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 20.2 x 11.8 cm

Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

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An idea of a phytological history propounded : together with a continuation of the anatomy of vegetables, particularly prosecuted upon roots : and an account of the vegetation of roots grounded chiefly thereupon / by Nehemiah Grew.

Botanical classification; 227 figures of plant anatomical segments with descriptive text. Colour process print (?).

Fifteen different forms of plant root and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.

A plant root cut to show growth rings, wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and a root tip. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

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An idea of a phytological history propounded : together with a continuation of the anatomy of vegetables, particularly prosecuted upon roots : and an account of the vegetation of roots grounded chiefly thereupon / by Nehemiah Grew.

Botanical classification; 227 figures of plant anatomical segments with descriptive text. Colour process print (?).

Fifteen different forms of plant root and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.

A plant root cut to show growth rings, wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and a root tip. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.

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