The Nottinghamshire Flora; containing the flowering plants, ferns, mosses, hepaticae, lichens, characeae and algae by Howitt, Godfrey - 1839

London: Hamilton, Adams & Co, 1839. Small slim 12mo, pp (2), 124, a hand-coloured frontispiece map, pages age-toned but otherwise very clean and sound, a little browning to the frontispiece and title page, with the book label of Baronet Bron=mhead of Thurlby Hall on the front endpaper, original green polished cloth with gilt decoration on upper cover showing an ornate vase of flowers, slight marks and bumps, the spine label appears to have been hand-written on paper but is now largely lacking. RARE, AND A VERY GOOD COPY. [Godfrey Howitt - 1800-1873 - was physician to the Nottingham General Hospital from 1829 to 1839 and was keenly interested in science and literature. He wrote this standard work The Flora of Nottinghamshire, and discovered a new species of catchfly which grew on the Castle Rock. Professor John Wilson ("Christopher North," of Edinburgh) made the "Ettrick Shepherd" in Blackwoods Magazine described his as "Ane o' the best botanists in England an' a desperate beetle hunter." His ardent love for collecting accompanied him to Australia and he bequeathed his natural history collection and library to the Melbourne Museum (The Howitt Collection). He also gave £1,000 to found scholarships in Natural History in the University. In 1847 he became one of the first physicians to the Melbourne Hospital and had the experience of being paid his fees in gold dust by miners who consulted him professionally. ]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.