Author: Babington, C.C.
Title: Flora of Cambridgeshire: or, a Catalogue of the Plants Found in the County of Cambridge, with References to Former Catalogues, and the Localities of the Rarer Species
Description: John van Voorst 1860 lvi, 327, 1 folding map. . HB. 8vo in 6s, orig. green cloth, blind ornamental border to both boards, minor mark to rear board. Author's obituary, reprinted from 'The Record', August 9, 1895, tipped-in before the Preface. A fine copy. Ownership inscription of E[dward] B[yles] Cowell to endpaper. Cowell (1826-1903) was ..... Pencil annotation to rear endpaper. From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate.. First edition. Charles Cardale Babington (1808 –1895) was a botanist and archaeologist. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, and while there met Charles Darwin. In 1829 they argued over beetle specimens that a local dealer was selling.Babington was later appointed chair of botany at the University of Cambridge in 1861. His major publications included: Manual of British Botany (1843),Flora of Cambridgeshire (1860), and The British Rubi(1869). Freeman 137..

Keywords: Cambridgeshire; England; Britain; County Flora; Darwin; Decorative Binding; Flora; Botany


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