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[KNIGHT, JOSEPH AND THOMAS ALOYSIUS PERRY] A Synopsis of the Coniferous Plants Grown in Great Britain, and Sold by Knight and Perry, at the Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea.
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, [1850]. Octavo, 64 pp, 4, 32 pp. advertisements. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, very scarce. Joseph Knight is best remembered for his part in a major botanical controversy in the early nineteenth century involving Robert Brown and a charge of plagiarism over the naming of many species of Proteaceae. Knight and Perry were a very successful business and eventually became part of the Veitch nursery empire.
Offered for AUD 200.00 = appr. US$ 159.40 by: Andrew Isles Natural History Books - Book number: 18106