[Rarebooks] FS: 1805 Lectures on Botany with Colored Plates

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Lectures on Various Subjects, as delivered in the Botanic Garden
at Lambeth, by the late William Curtis, F.L.S. Volume III [with] Sketch of
the Life and Writings of the late Mr. William Curtis by Dr. Thornton”

By William Curtis.

Published in London; Printed for H.D. Symonds and Curtis in 1805.

DISCUSSION: The final volume of Curtis's "Lectures on Botany" series. This
volume features lectures on grasses, improving pasture land, grafting, the
culture of plants, and insects.

"William Curtis [1746-1799] was an English botanist and entomologist, who
was born at Alton, Hampshire. Curtis began as an apothecary, before
turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The
publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early
works on the subject had intended. At the age of 25 he produced
Instructions for collecting and preserving insects; particularly moths and
butterflies. Curtis was demonstrator of plants and Praefectus Horti at the
Chelsea Physic Garden from 1771 to 1777. He established his own London
Botanic Garden at Lambeth in 1779, moving to Brompton in 1789. He
published Flora Londinensis (6 volumes, 1777–1798), a pioneering work in
that it devoted itself to urban nature. He went on the publish The
Botanical Magazine in 1787, a work that would also feature hand coloured
plates by artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, and William
Kilburn. Curtis was to gain wealth from the ventures into publishing. His
publication was continued as the esteemed botanical publication, Curtis's
Botanical Magazine. He is commemorated in a stained glass window at St.
Mary's Church, Battersea, as many of his samples were collected from the
churchyard there."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6"x9.5", 63 pages plus 24 colored plates, plus 33
pages and a portrait plate.

CONDITION NOTES: Ex-library, bound in old quarter leather.  Covers beat,
hinges cracking. Plate 9 appears twice, once in place of Plate 10 which
does not appear (both plates concern grafting). Some internal soil and
foxing, the plates are blindstamped.

PRICE: $400-

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