Order Out Of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Names And Their Types. Jarvis, Charlie. Botany Monographs

pp.viii, [iv], 1016 profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw., gently sunned on spine. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist with dedications to him from the author and the two principal researchers to verso of ffep., in which they thank him greatly for his help in making this book a reality. Furthermore, Gren is one of the first people to be thanked in the book’s Acknowledgments. Loosely inserted are two detailed and published reviews of the book (one from ‘Natural Science’, the other from ‘The Quarterly Review of Biology’. Out-of-print. A superb production. This work brought together for the first time information on the identification of all Linnaeus’ plant names. Also contains detailed accounts both of Linnaeus’ publications and those of other botanists that contributed to his understanding of plants.