[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register :

LINDLEY, John (1799-1865)

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consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1839. First edition, first issue. Two works bound in one volume, octavo (245 x 160 mm); contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and green morocco title piece lettered in gilt; front pastedown with the nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Sir William H. Cooper; Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Registerpp. iv, lxiv, with four woodcut illustrations in the text; A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony (caption title) pp. [i]-lviii, [1 Eplanation of the plates], followed by 9 hand-coloured engraved plates; light foxing to the outermost leaves, a fine copy. The second work in this volume is the rare first edition of the first substantial accountofthebotanyofWestern Australia, containing detailed information about the known flora of the south-west cornerofWestern Australia - a region with a botanically significant ecosystem. John Lindley FRS (1799-1865) wasProfessorofBotany at the University of London; he compiled this botanical record of Western Australia using a herbariumof1000 species which was made available to him for research. His opening remarks in hisSketchgive context to the project: "Thefrequent arrivalofseeds from thisColony,theexcellent state in whichthey are received, andthefacility with which further supplies can be procured, appear to render some Botanical accountofthis remarkable country a desirable appendage to a work which, liketheBotanical Register, forms an original recordofnew plants introduced, or worthyofintroduction, to our Gardens.? The Sketch is appended to Lindley's own index to thefirst twenty-three volumes of Edwards?s Botanical Register. Ferguson, 2791 (the second work). Note: In 1840 a second issueof A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony was issued under its own title by Ridgway. Australian institutional holdings: SLWA; Murdoch University; WA Department of Biodiversity; NLA; SLNSW; University of Adelaide; Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium.

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• Titre: [SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register :
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