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Full title - BOTANICK ESSAYS. IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST CONTAINING, THE STRUCTURE OF THE FLOWERS, AND THE FRUCTIFICATION OF PLANTS, WITH THEIR VARIOUS DISTRIBUTIONS INTO METHOD: AND THE SECOND, THE GENERATION OF PLANTS, WITH THEIR SEXES AND MANNER OF IMPREGNATING THE SEED: ALSO CONCERNING THE ANIMALCULA IN SEMINE MASCULINO. TOGETHER WITH THE NOURISHMENT OF PLANTS, AND CIRCULATION OF THE SAP IN ALL SEASONS, ANALOGOUS TO THAT OF THE BLOOD IN ANIMALS. WITH MANY CURIOUS REMARKS, AND SEVERAL DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS. ADORN'D WITH FIGURES. [34], 414, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 12.5cm. Contemporary full leather with rubbing/scuffing and stains; board edges worn particularly at corners; head and heel spine leather worn even with text block edges; spine embellished with five slightly raised bands but no title label present; slender splitting and leather loss at joints but boards remain firm. Pencil ownership inscription dated 1940 on front free endpaper; ownership signature "W M Robertson" in antiquarian ink at top of front flyleaf verso and repeated on pages [27] and 1 with perhaps some other occurrences to be discovered upon a more carful perusal. Subtle gutter stub evidence preceding title leaf so missing either a plate or a half-title. Edge-wear, toning, and staining to endpapers and flyleaves. One quire at center fractionally pulled but binding is otherwise firm. Printer advertisement for "W. and J. Innys" [William Innys; John Innys] on unpaged final text leaf. Harvard University's HOLLIS catalog cites "[36],414,[2]p.,plates" so aforementioned stub accounts for leaf discrepancy but NO PLATES ARE PRESENT. ***** Acquired from a modest collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth century academic, legal, medical, and scientific works from a Columbus, Mississippi estate which had familial roots to the Maryland Eastern Shore and the hamlet of Cambridge in Dorchester County with descent from Maryland U.S. Representative and ambassador William Vans Murray (1760-1803) and/or his nephew William Vans Murray Robertson (1797 or 1799-1836). The books migrated to Huntsville, Alabama circa 1850 via Reverend John Murray Robertson (1804-1878) and thence onward to Columbus via another family descendant.…