The botany of the Antarctic voyage of the H. M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843. Under the command of Captain sir James Clark Ross. Part one: Flora Antarctica.

London: Lovell Reeve, 1847.
Large quarto, two volumes 574 pp. (lacks leaf 49-50- supplied in photocopy), coloured map, 187 handcoloured plates by William Hood Fitch (numbered 1-198) including 13 double page plates. Early half red morocco and green morocco grained cloth, some wear to both volumes but mainly confined to volume one, top edge coloured, other edges uncut. The bookplate of Alice de. V. Clarke in both volumes and three owner's signatures (John Amory Lowell, Alice de V. Clarke and Susan L. Clarke) on the half titles. All plates brightly coloured and with no obvious blemishes, some tissue guards present.

Volume one: Botany of Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell Island.
Volume two: Botany of Fuegia, The Falklands, Kerguelen's Island, etc.

Hooker's Flora Antarctica, including the companion volumes Flora Tasmania and Flora New Zealandica, are some of the finest books ever published on southern hemisphere flora. Hooker was the first scientist to use Darwinian arguments to support his own scientific arguments.

Great Flower Books (reprint) p. 101; Nissen 908.