Botanical miscellany [becoming The journal of Botany].

Edinburgh: John Murray, 1830-1842.
Octavo, seven volumes, 223 engraved plates (plus one duplicate), some folding, many coloured. Three volumes thick large octavo [Botanical miscellany 1830-1833] and four volumes standard octavo [The journal of botany 1834-1842]. Publisher's cloth, some wear, dampstaining and cracked hinges; some foxing and staining but the fine coloured plates generally clean, scarce.

An important botanical journal with much of Australian interest, including a lengthy biography of the plant collector Allan Cunningham. Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was appointed in 1841 as the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, a position he held until his death only to be succeeded by his son Joseph Dalton Hooker. He encouraged and maintained a huge correspondence with plant collectors in all parts of the world and made considerable use of the talents of the Tasmanian naturalist Ronald Campbell Gunn.

BM(NH) p. 871; not in Nissen; Pritzel 219 and 220.