Empire of Flora, or scientific description of all known plants, natives and exotics: arranged after the reformed sexual system of ... Linnaeus. Vol. 1. / [Robert John Thornton].

London : T. Bensley for Symonds, etc., 1803[-1804]

3 unnumbered leaves, 75 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : engr. plates & folded tables ; (8vo)

Half-title: Plants of Great Britain

According tp D.N.B. issued in monthly parts with the intention of eventually publishing two volumes covering the British plants. Some of the plates are dated 1804.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.