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Author Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828.

Title A specimen of the botany of New Holland / by James Edward Smith ; the figures by James Sowerby. Vol. I
Published London : Printed by J. Davis: Published by J. Sowerby, 1793

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 ADPML SPC  581.994 Smi/Sot *  LIB USE ONLY
Description viii, 54 pages, 16 leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 31 cm (wove in 2s)
Series Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK7403 ANL
Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK890 ANL
Notes First separately published book on the flora of Australia
Hand coloured illustrations
National Library of Australia's GMMq copy stamped and signed Gregory M. Mathews with ex-libris bookplate pasted in. ANL
National Library of Australia's Library's NK7403 copy in Bayntun box, half-bound in mottled calf with marbled boards which bears the book plate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1794/2); consists in original wrappers with the name label of James Kemp Welch pasted in and numbered by hand, "no. 174"; some (original?) tissue interleaved. ANL
National Library of Australia's NL, 13570 copy is bound with an incomplete copy of: Zoology of New Holland / by George Shaw. This copy of Zoology of New Holland bears the t.p. of the combined work. (Ferguson, 196); stamped 'Parliament of the Commonwealth Library, NL 13570' and 'Commonwealth of Australia, 13 OCT 1906, Library of the Parliament' ANL
National Library of Australia's Petherick copy bound with Zoology of New Holland / by George Shaw. (Ferguson, 196) and inscribed in pencil, Isabella Holwell Holwell. ANL
Originally published in parts together with: Zoology of New Holland / by George Shaw. The title of the combined work is: Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent / the zoological part by George Shaw ; the botanical part by James Edward Smith. (Ferguson no. 196)
Vol. I only was published
Wove paper
Subject Botany -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Early works to 1800.
Botany -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Early works to 1900
Author Holwell, Isabella Holwell, ?-1844, former owner ANL
Shaw, George, 1751-1813. Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.
Welch, James Kemp, former owner ANL