Edward Jacob (1713-1788) surgeon & apothecary, botanist, botanist, antiquarian, bibliophile, fossil collector and Mayor of Faversham, Kent / by William H. George.

Plantæ Favershamienses. A catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Faversham, in the county of Kent / With an appendix, exhibiting a short view of the fossil bodies of the adjacent Island of Shepey. By Edward Jacob.

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