The elements of botany for beginners and for schools / by Asa Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, author.

Contributor:

Ivison, Blakeman & Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Shumway, E. A. (autograph) (Adams copy)

Hemineo(?), Elizabeth (inscription) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

226 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York and Chicago : Ivison, Blakeman and Company, 1887.

Notes:

At head of title: Gray's lessons in botany. Revised edition.

" ... Takes the place of the author's Lessons in botany and vegetable physiology ... and is a kind of new and much revised edition of that ... work."--Preface.

Not to be confused with the author's earliest publication, Elements of botany, 1836, of which copies are rarely seen.

"Copyright, by Asa Gray. 1887"--verso of title page.

Issued with: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. Manual of the botany of the northern United States. New York : Ivison, Blakeman, and Company, Publishers, 1890, 1889.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018. Kislak Center copy has pressed flowers laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. Elements of botany for beginners and for schools.

OCLC:

3641030