[Rarebooks] FS: Mawe's "Universal Gardener and Botanist" w/11 engraved plates. London: 1797

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(BOTANY) Mawe, Thomas and John Abercrombie. THE UNIVERSAL GARDENER AND
BOTANIST: OR, A GENERAL DICTIONARY OF GARDENING AND BOTANY. Exhibiting
in Botanical Arrangement, According to the Linnaean System, the Various
Genera and Species of Plants, Trees... The Second Edition. Carefully
Revised, Corrected, and Very Much Improved; with the Addition of...
Above Five Hundred Species of Plants More Than in the Former Edition...
And in This Edition Are Added Many Descriptive Plates of
Green-houses... London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, and T.
Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. 1797. Lg. thick 4to. Unpaginated. Double
column text. Illustrated with 11 engraved plates (1 folding). Cont.
gilt decorated calf, front cover a bit scuffed, rebacked some time ago
with orig. spine strip & red calf label laid down.	$400.00 (trade
discount allowed)

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