Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Chara Hispida - Hispid Chara - F1

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Chara Hispida - Hispid Chara - F1"Chara Hispida" This original hand coloured engraving is from James Sowerby's English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms and Places of Growth, published by J. Davis in London in 1790 1814. First edition of the extensively illustrated botanical series. The reverse side of this engraving is blank. The text page on the third picture, below, is an original page from this work with original description

Bowdler Sharpe is also known as the author of numerous scientific papers

He was born into a family with a distinguished cartographic tradition

"Lycopodium Selaginoides"

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