Botany For The Young People and Common Schools; How Plants Grow, A Simple Introduction To Structural Botany With A Popular Flora or an Arrangement and Description of Common Plants, Both Wild and Cultivated | With 500 Illustrations | 1880 Edition

2025-06-26T08:08:52-04:00

Price: 85.00

By Asa Gray, M.D.

Illustrated With Wood Engravings

Published 1880
Ivision, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Publishers/ New York

A remarkable 19th-century American botanical work by renowned botanist Asa Gray. This educational guide introduces plant structure, classification, and propagation through detailed, accessible explanations and over 500 wood-engraved illustrations.

This volume includes:
• A clear, engaging structure intended for young learners and school settings
• Hundreds of in-text botanical illustrations, diagrams, and floral cross-sections
• Chapters on plant parts, growth from seed, and reproductive systems
• A popular flora section with practical identification tools for both wild and cultivated plants

The front cover features an elaborate Victorian engraved design with floral scrollwork and children exploring nature—reflecting the era’s belief in hands-on, moral education. The spine is worn and the front board is edge-chipped, but the binding remains intact/tight and the pages are fully legible with scattered foxing.

Condition: Good. Edgewear to boards, chipping to spine, interior foxing and toning as show

Size: 5 1/2” x7 1/2’

A historically significant piece by one of America’s most important botanists, this book captures the intersection of science, education, and art in the 19th century.