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Miller, Philip (1755-1755): Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray’s, Tournefort’s, and Linnoeus’s Method of Classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: [VI p.], 100 p. + 150 p. [=256 p.]; vol. 2: 200 p. + 150 p., [4] [=354 p.], London. vol. 1: title-page vignette (p. [III, V]); 150 plates of plant illustrations; vol. 2: 150 plates of plant illustrations, folio,

Miller, Philip and Huth, Georg Leonhart (1768-1782): Philipp Millers Gaertners der preiswürdigen Apothekergesellschaft in dem Kräutergarten zu Chelsea, und Mitglied der koenigl. englischen Societät der Wissenschaften, und der Botanischen Academie zu Florenz, Abbildungen der nützlichsten, schönsten und seltensten Pflanzen, welche in seinem Gaertner-Lexicon vorkommen : auf das genaueste, nach den von der Natur genommenen Zeichnungen, in Kupfer gestochen und illuminirt ; auch mit einer ausführlichen Beschreibung und Anzeige der Classen, worunter sie nach Raii, Tourneforts und Linnäi Classification gehören, erläutert. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: [IV p.], 158 p., [CCLXXXI p.], [2 p.]; vol. 2: 155 p., [CCLII p.], [3 p.], Nuremberg. vol. 1: title-page vignette (p. [I, III]); 150 coloured illustrations on 281 pages; vol. 2: title-page vignette; 150 coloured illustrations on 252 pages,