SMILES, Samuel

Robert Dick Baker of Thurso Geologist and Botanist

London: John Murray, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xx, 436, plus several pages of publishers' advertisements. Frontis. portrait of Robert Dick by Paul Rajon. Illustrated throughout with black & white illustrations. Index. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine, black tooling on boards. Rubbed edges; marks and soiling to covers; light foxing to endpapers; rear hinge starting. Very Good. Item #11414

The herbarium formed by Robert Dick (1811 – 1866), consisting of soime-200 folios of mosses, ferns and flowering plants, which is rare for its survival nearly in toto, is now housed in the museum at Thurso.

Price: $65.00