Skip to contentMenthae Britannicae: : being a new botanical arrangement of all the British mints hitherto discovered. Illustrated with twenty-four copper-plates, of the natural size, done from life by able artists; exhibiting a figure of every distinct mint herein treated of, including all those enumerated by Ray and Hudson; together with several new species hitherto unnoticed | Collections | The Huntington
Menthae Britannicae: : being a new botanical arrangement of all the British mints hitherto discovered. Illustrated with twenty-four copper-plates, of the natural size, done from life by able artists; exhibiting a figure of every distinct mint herein treated of, including all those enumerated by Ray and Hudson; together with several new species hitherto unnoticed
Purchased for The Huntington from W. Graham Arader III by the Library Collectors' Council, March 2025. Evidently the author's copy. Signature of E. Lingwood on front pastedown. Armorial bookplate of Lingwood with initials "R. M." [Robert Maulkin Lingwood] on front pastedown. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Arthur B. Sole, St. Thomas' Rectory, Winchester. Leaf with ms. annotations, "Extract from Report of Bath ...[?] England and ...[?] Cultural Society, date 1799", laid in at front. Printed obituary clipping about the author pasted on page viii, with ms. date "February 7th 1802". From the library of Robert de Belder and Jelena de Belder-Koracic (their sale, Sotheby's, 28 April 1987:340). Dealer description information removed to Provenance File.