Letters on the elements of botany
Subtitle: addressed to a lady
By: by the celebrated J.J. Rousseau ; translated into English ; with notes, and twenty-four additional letters fully explaining the system of Linnæus
Publisher: Printed for B. White and Son
Published: 1785
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Botany
Other titles: Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.
Notes: Plates issued separately as thirty-eight plates.

Includes index.

The first eight letters are the first English translation of Rousseau's Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.

The additional letters by Martyn are concerned with the 24 classes of Linnaeus.

As an 'Introduction' Martyn has translated the introduction to Rousseau's Fragmens pour un dictionnaire des terms d'usage en botanique, which he described as 'A short history of the rise and progress of Botany ; particularly of Nomenclature and systematic arrangement.'

Pritzel (2nd) 5927, 7824.

Stafleu (2nd) 5568.

Soulsby 701.

Wellcome cat. of printed books, IV, p. 565

Henrey 1281

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 389

ESTC (RLIN) T136469