[Richard Warner]: 'Plantae Woodfordienses a catalogue of the...

Hammer

£80

[Richard Warner]: 'Plantae Woodfordienses a catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Woodford in the county of Essex.', London, privately published, 1771, 1st edition, vii,222[2]pp + Index of the Latin names as given by Linnaeus pp 223-238, title page with engraved RW monogram vignette, contemporary calf (slightly worn). Botanical work by Richard Warner (c.1713-1775), botanist and literary scholar, of Woodford Row, Essex, the origins of which in the ‘herborisations’ of the Apothecaries' Company, to the master, wardens, and court of assistants of which it is dedicated. Warner entered Wadham College, Oxford, in July 1730, and graduated B.A. in 1734. He had chambers in Lincoln's Inn; but lived mainly at Woodford where he maintained a botanical garden, and cultivated exotic plants. A contemporary of Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Kalm, John Ellis, Hans Sloane & other eminent botanists and naturalists of the 18th Century, Warner is buried in Woodford churchyard, his books and drawings relating to botany and natural history went to Wadham College, with money to found a botanical exhibition at the college tenable for seven years by the presentation of fifty dried plants and a certificate.