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RUDGE, Edward; SMITH, James Edward et al.]

[BOTANY; NEW HOLLAND] The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume X. [1811]

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London : Richard Taylor & Co., 1811. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), later green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, front pastedown with bookplate of distinguished German-born Australian botanist Sophie Ducker (1909-2004); pp. vi, 414, [2]; illustrated with 32 engraved plates (some folding); a few of the plates with foxing and/or offsetting, otherwise internally excellent.

Includes two contributions on Australian flora, both of which have accompanying plates:

Rudge, Edward, A description of several species of plants from New Holland (pp. 283-303)

Smith, James Edward, An account of a new genus of New Holland plants named Brunonia (pp. 365-70)