Icones Filicum Etc. Figures And Descriptions Of Ferns Etc; Volume 1 (Latin Edition)

Hooker, William Jackson

History

Legare Street Press

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The British Ferns: Or Colored Figures And Descriptions, With The Needful Analyses Of The Fructification And Venation Of The Ferns Of Great Britain And Ireland, Systematically Arranged (1861)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Kessinger Publishing

Journal Of A Tour In Iceland V1: In The Summer Of 1809 (1813)

Travel

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an eminent British botanist, best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of botanic research and conservation. At the age of nineteen he undertook an expedition to Iceland, his first outside Britain. Unfortunately, all his specimens and notes were destroyed in a fire on the return voyage (described in Volume 1), but he was able, with the help of the notes made by Sir Joseph Banks on an earlier expedition, to write this account. His work was first published privately in 1811, but a second edition was published in 1813 and is reproduced here. Volume 1 gives a brief history of Iceland, before Hooker begins his detailed observations of the people and topography, and the flora and fauna he found. His accounts of the lives of the people of the island are of particular interest.

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) (Volume 1)

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an eminent British botanist, best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of botanic research and conservation. At the age of nineteen he undertook an expedition to Iceland, his first outside Britain. Unfortunately, all his specimens and notes were destroyed in a fire on the return voyage (described in Volume 1), but he was able, with the help of the notes made by Sir Joseph Banks on an earlier expedition, to write this account. His work was first published privately in 1811, but a second edition was published in 1813 and is reproduced here. In 1809 England and Denmark-Norway were at war, and Iceland was a Danish dependency. Volume 2 offers Hooker's first-hand observations on the relationship between the two countries, and also includes detailed descriptions of the many volcanoes on the island.

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) (Volume 2)

<p>Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an eminent British botanist, best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of botanic research and conservation. At the age of nineteen he undertook an expedition to Iceland, his first outside Britain. Unfortunately, all his specimens and notes were destroyed in a fire on the return voyage (described in Volume 1), but he was able, with the help of the notes made by Sir Joseph Banks on an earlier expedition, to write this account. His work was first published privately in 1811, but a second edition was published in 1813 and is reproduced here. Volume 1 gives a brief history of Iceland before Hooker begins his detailed observations of the people and topography, and the flora and fauna he found. Volume 2 includes detailed descriptions of the many volcanoes on the island.</p>

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science)

Science & Math

Icones Plantarum: Or, Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New or Rare Plants, Selected from the Author's Herbarium (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)

Biological Sciences

This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication. Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens, was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according to the natural orders'.

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