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IRELAND - FLORA THRELKELD (CALEB) Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum..., FIRST EDITION, 1727
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IRELAND - FLORA
THRELKELD (CALEB) Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum... Being a Short Treatise of Native Plants, especially such as grow spontaneously in the vicinity of Dublin... with an appendix of observations made upon plants, by Dr. Molyneux, FIRST EDITION, second issue title-page, woodcut vignette on dedication leaf, without the list of subscribers, title soiled, smudge to opening leaf of preface, modern green morocco, gilt lettering on spine [Henrey 1431], 8vo, Printed by S. Powell, for F. Davys, Richard Norris and Josiah Worrall, 1727
Footnotes
THE FIRST FLORA OF IRELAND, recording "over 500 flowering plants, gymnosperms, ferns, and various other cryptogams; 119 plants were recorded from specified localities and over 400 vernacular Irish names were noted" (ODNB).