The Anatomy of Plants with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures Read Before the Royal Society by Grew, Nehemiah - 1965

[London]: W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682 . First edition. Leather. Good Only. 12.5" by 8.5". None. The very scarce first collected edition of Nehemiah Grew's important work on plant anatomy, lacking all eighty-three engraved plates. The very scarce first collected edition of Grew's work. Grew, an English plant anatomist and physiologist, is known as the 'Father of Plant Anatomy', and is remembered as being the first scientist to observe the sexual nature of plants, and ascribe the male functions to the stamens.This first edition thus largely collects together previous publications from Grew, though some original material is also included. Collected together in this work are: 'An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants'; 'The Anatomy of Plants, Begun'; 'The Anatomy of Roots'; 'The Anatomy of Trunks'; 'The Anatomy of Leaves, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds', and 'Several Lectures Read Before the Royal Society', with an individual title page for each section.ESTC Citation No. R10887Retaining the… Read More