The gardener's and botanist's dictionary; containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, and nursery; of performing the practical parts of agriculture; of managing vineyards, and of propagating all sorts of timber trees. By the late Philip Miller, F.R.S. gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their botanic garden in Chelsea, and member of the Botanic Academy at Florence. To which are now first added, a complete enumeration and description of all plants hitherto known, with their generic and specific characters, places of growth, times of flowering, and uses both medicinal and economical. The whole corrected and newly arranged, with the addition of all the modern impr

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2 vols., large thick folio, 20 engraved plates in vol. 1, rebound quarter calf, marbled sides. [Dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks] [As ESTC notes: "Not in fact by Philip Miller, but by Thomas Martyn, though founded on Miller. Published in parts, being completed in 1807. Some copies include one or more 1807 title-pages, with imprint reading: 'London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Johnson, G. and W. Nicol, R. Baldwin, W. J. and J. Richardson, S. Hayes, R. Faulder and Son, T. Payne, W. Lowndes, J. Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, Cuthell and Martin, R. Lea, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, J. Taylor, E. Jefferey, W. Clarke and Sons, C. Robinson, C. Law, J. White, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Cadell and Davies, J. Murray, W. Stewart, J. Booth, S. Bagster, and J. Booker: by Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. M DCCC VII.' [ESTC N18290; Henrey 1114] [Extra postage required]. N° de ref. del artículo 24411

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