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IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
GRONOVIUS, Joannes Fridericus (1686-1762). Flora Virginica exhibens plantas quas… in Virginia crescents observavit collegit & obtulit. Leiden, 1762.
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GRONOVIUS, Joannes Fridericus (1686-1762). Flora Virginica exhibens plantas quas… in Virginia crescents observavit collegit & obtulit. Leiden, 1762.
4° (255 x 201 mm). Engraved folding map of Virginia. Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate).
Second edition of the first Virginian flora, based on collections made by John Clayton at the beginning of the 18th century with the engraved folding map of Virginia here for the first time. The map is “one of the earliest botanical maps of any region of the world “(Maps in Virginia). "John Clayton had an estate on the Piankatank River in Mathews County, spent much time in collecting Virginia plants. Because Clayton's herbarium specimens formed the basis of this work, it is often asserted it should be called 'Clayton's Flora Virginica', but the final identification of the specimens, the science and system of the book, were largely the work of Gronovius. The map is an important eighteenth-century map of Virginia. The excellent bibliography of 'authors cited' is another feature of this 1762 edition" Cleveland Collections 456, (GC this copy); Hunt 571; Sabin 28924; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2189; Stephenson and McKee, Maps in Virginia p.106.
4° (255 x 201 mm). Engraved folding map of Virginia. Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate).
Second edition of the first Virginian flora, based on collections made by John Clayton at the beginning of the 18th century with the engraved folding map of Virginia here for the first time. The map is “one of the earliest botanical maps of any region of the world “(Maps in Virginia). "John Clayton had an estate on the Piankatank River in Mathews County, spent much time in collecting Virginia plants. Because Clayton's herbarium specimens formed the basis of this work, it is often asserted it should be called 'Clayton's Flora Virginica', but the final identification of the specimens, the science and system of the book, were largely the work of Gronovius. The map is an important eighteenth-century map of Virginia. The excellent bibliography of 'authors cited' is another feature of this 1762 edition" Cleveland Collections 456, (GC this copy); Hunt 571; Sabin 28924; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 2189; Stephenson and McKee, Maps in Virginia p.106.