1876 A General System of Botany,Descriptive and Analytical 

By Emm. LeMaout and J. Decaisne,translated by Mrs Hooker and the orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America and India.With additions, an appendix on the natural method and a synopsis of the orders by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.

Printed by Longmans, Green and Co London 1876.

In two parts.

Part 1-Outlines of Organography,Anatomy and Physiology.

Part 2-Descriptions and Illustrations of the Orders.

Beautifully illustrated with 5500 drawings.1066 pages with some foxing through the book.

The cover has a lovely gold illustrated Seaforthia elegans on the front cover.It is a bit marked but generally sound.

The spine is a bit fragile and split in places and there are two inscriptions inside from 1881 and 1949.