Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological. With an Appendix, Containing Descritions of The Plants of The United States and Exotics, &c. For The Use of Seminaries and Private Students. Twentieth Edition, Revised and Enlarged; Illustrated by Many Additional Engravings.

Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological. With an Appendix, Containing Descritions of The Plants of The United States and Exotics, &c. For The Use of Seminaries and Private Students. Twentieth Edition, Revised and Enlarged; Illustrated by Many Additional Engravings. Lincoln, Almira H. 1844. New York: Huntington & Savage

Popular nineteenth-century botanical textbook by pioneering American educator Almira H. Lincoln, combining practical and physiological botany with descriptions of plants of the United States and exotic species. This revised twentieth edition includes numerous engravings, eight full-page plates, and extensive indexes.

8vo.(4.75" x 7.75") 246 + 186 pp. Full tan speckled calf. Spine with six gilt rule bands, gilt lettering to black leather in second compartment. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to rear tips. Heavy foxing to front and rear pastedowns and first and last free endpapers. Lighter foxing throughout, mostly towards front of text. Illustrated with dozens of in-text illustrations and eight full page plates in second part of text. Features multiple indexes.