PLAWSKI- DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL WORDS. Vilnius 1830

PŁAWSKI Aleksander

DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL WORDS

Vilna : Jozef Zawadzki by his own hand, 1830; VIII, 298, [1]; format 14x24

The dictionary contains explanations of professional Latin terms and is supplemented by a Polish-German-French-Latin index

From the introduction: "Engaging in the reading of botanical works as well as the designation of plants, I encountered many obstacles in the beginning due to little knowledge of the technical words of science. The dexterity of obtaining various works has served me to overcome this difficulty; and the desire to facilitate those who are not familiar with botany and wish to proceed in it, has given me the idea of publishing this Dictionary of Botanical Words."

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