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DRUMMOND, Thomas (bap. 1793-1835). Musci Americani or Specimens of the Mosses collected in British North America, and chiefly among the Rocky Mountains during the Second Land Arctic Expedition, under the Command of Captain Franklin. Glasgow: 1828.
2 volumes, 2° (280 x 219mm). 286 printed labels with one or more related dried specimens of mosses, extra specimen at end of vol. II. (Some soiling and occasional spotting, mainly marginal, labels 138 and 139 inverted.) Contemporary marbled paper boards backed in green morocco, gilt title on spine (spine and extremities rubbed). Provenance: Sir Charles John James Hamilton, 3rd Baronet (1810–1892; inscription dated 9 November 1858).
EXTREMELY RARE, NO OTHER COPY RECORDED AT AUCTION (ABPC and RBH). Charles John James Hamilton was the son of Sir Charles Hamilton, second baronet (1767–1849), and Henrietta Martha (d. 10 March 1857), only daughter of George Drummond. Thomas Drummond was an horticulturist and botanical collector, he was the younger brother of the botanical collector James Drummond (bap. 1787, d. 1863) and the first curator of the Belfast Botanic and Horticultural Society's new botanical garden. Drummond produced two exsiccatae of mosses: Musci Scotici (Forfar, 1824–5) and Musci Americani. He is commemorated in the names of numerous North American plants (including Dryas drummondii, Oenothera drummondii, and Phlox drummondii) and an Irish horsetail (Equisetum drummondii, now E. pratense). William H. Harvey cleverly commemorated both Thomas and his elder brother, James, in Drummondita—‘i’ for ‘j’ for James, and ‘t’ for Thomas—which is the botanical name for a genus of Australian shrubs belonging to the rue family. This copy contains an additional specimen of Fucus Agarum, possibly attached by Hamilton himself. Sabin 20975; Cfr. RICH, Vol. II (‘Contains 286 specimens of mosses, with printed descriptions. Dr. Hooker informed me that there were not forty copies of this work altogether’).
2 volumes, 2° (280 x 219mm). 286 printed labels with one or more related dried specimens of mosses, extra specimen at end of vol. II. (Some soiling and occasional spotting, mainly marginal, labels 138 and 139 inverted.) Contemporary marbled paper boards backed in green morocco, gilt title on spine (spine and extremities rubbed). Provenance: Sir Charles John James Hamilton, 3rd Baronet (1810–1892; inscription dated 9 November 1858).
EXTREMELY RARE, NO OTHER COPY RECORDED AT AUCTION (ABPC and RBH). Charles John James Hamilton was the son of Sir Charles Hamilton, second baronet (1767–1849), and Henrietta Martha (d. 10 March 1857), only daughter of George Drummond. Thomas Drummond was an horticulturist and botanical collector, he was the younger brother of the botanical collector James Drummond (bap. 1787, d. 1863) and the first curator of the Belfast Botanic and Horticultural Society's new botanical garden. Drummond produced two exsiccatae of mosses: Musci Scotici (Forfar, 1824–5) and Musci Americani. He is commemorated in the names of numerous North American plants (including Dryas drummondii, Oenothera drummondii, and Phlox drummondii) and an Irish horsetail (Equisetum drummondii, now E. pratense). William H. Harvey cleverly commemorated both Thomas and his elder brother, James, in Drummondita—‘i’ for ‘j’ for James, and ‘t’ for Thomas—which is the botanical name for a genus of Australian shrubs belonging to the rue family. This copy contains an additional specimen of Fucus Agarum, possibly attached by Hamilton himself. Sabin 20975; Cfr. RICH, Vol. II (‘Contains 286 specimens of mosses, with printed descriptions. Dr. Hooker informed me that there were not forty copies of this work altogether’).
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