The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants

First edition, first printing. 470pp with 159 colour illustrations, many of them plates and some in text. In red boards with gilt lettering, decorated endpapers. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped along top edge, price clipped). . A broad ranging botanical history and the men who over 2,000 years searched for the naming conventions of plants and flowers, with stunning botanical illustrations.