Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Among the many interests of Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was botany. These letters 'addressed to a lady' on the Linnaean system and the structure of plants came to the attention of Thomas Martyn professor of botany at the Un paperback
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Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Letters on the Elements of Botany - Addressed to a Lady is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1787. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science travel and expe paperback
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London: Printed for B. and J. White 1796. Hardcover. Very Good. 220 x 135 mm. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Letters on the Elements of Botany Addressed to a Lady. Translated into English with Notes And Twenty-Four Additional Letters Fully Explaining the System of Linnaeus by Thomas Martyn. Fifth Edition with Corrections and Improvements. London: Printed for B. And J. White 1796.220 x 135 mm pp. 503 28 p. index single foldout. Blue pastedown and fly leaves. Half title. Owner inscription along top of dedication Frances Amelia Rundell 1799. Bound in rustic pasteboard to resemble leather with leather spine and green label with gilt title. Some minor discolouration to front board. Top endband a little chipped. Overall VERY GOOD condition. ESTC T81076In addition to being one of the most influential philosophers in the Age of Enlightenment Jean Jaques-Rousseau was also an accomplished botanist. While living in Grenoble he wrote Letters on the Elements of Botany for the daughter of Madame Delessert in Lyon. The letters were intended to help her learn so he avoided using the Latin names and created a pedagogy behind his explanations to guide the young lady. The letters were eventually published posthumously to great acclaim.Thomas Martyn Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge took it upon himself to translate the letters from French into English to further their accessibility to an Anglophone audience. He said of the letters that they were intended to be studied not in an armchair but with a plant in hand to be examined.Frances Amelia Rundell 1780-18550 is fairly obscure in history; however it appears her name also appears in a 1809 edition of Voltaire’s Historic de l’Empire de Russia sous Pierre le Grand. Printed for B. and J. White hardcover
Paris: Les Pharmaciens Bibliophiles 1957. Original wraps. Very Good . Paul Baudier. A beautifully-illustrated example of mid-20th century French book-making with Paul Baudier's 23 lovely watercolors complementing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's text which was originally published in 1802. This lavish 1957 reprint consists of only 150 copies this being #11 of only 50 copies within the larger limitation of 150. Crisp and bright and Near Fine with all of the plates including their original tissue-guards. Loose signatures as issued housed within an off-white printed dustjacket which shows just a touch of very light white spotting at the panels. And the entire work housed inside of the publisher's printed cardboard chemise which shows a degree of wear along the outer hinges. Still though solid and very presentable. Les Pharmaciens Bibliophiles unknown
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