Phycologia Britannica – A History of British sea-weeds,
published 1846,
original colour lithographs by Reeve Brothers for William Henry Harvey. Framed. Plate CCLXXXI.
£85 each
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Pioneering example of collaborative investigation by a network of collectors, scattered around the coasts of Britain and Ireland, overseen by William Henry Harvey, an Irish botanist and professor of botany in Dublin.
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