The Aconites of India: A Monograph + A Sketch of the Life of Francis Hamilton (once Buchanan) sometime Superintendent of the Honorable Company’s Botanic Garden, Calcutta (India) 4 + 3 + 57

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Publisher Servico Geologico e Mineralogico do Brasil Publisher Place Rio de Janeiro Date Published 1913 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description Slight damp-staining to the spine margins of the front wrapper

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The Aconites of India: A Monograph + A Sketch of the Life of Francis Hamilton (once Buchanan) sometime Superintendent of the Honorable Company’s Botanic Garden, Calcutta (India) 4 + 3 + 57Pp. (i iv), i ii, 115 197, (1), i lxxv, 1 2; 25 full page plates (fine line drawings). Publishers original portfolio case in one quarter dark green leather over printed pale green boards, with three internal black flaps that hold the monograph, folio (14 3 4 x 11 1 2 inches). Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Volume X, Part II. This is the original and complete work published in Calcutta in 1905. Aconitum (Aconites) is a genus of over 250