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Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East-Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation : together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionaea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap

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Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.

The shrine of Saint Frideswide in Christ Church cathedral, Oxford. Mezzotint by J. Jones after J. Roberts, ca. 1790.

Wild countryside with a stormy sky; two men in prayer before a cross. Engraving by J. Roberts after R. Wilson.

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Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.

The shrine of Saint Frideswide in Christ Church cathedral, Oxford. Mezzotint by J. Jones after J. Roberts, ca. 1790.

Wild countryside with a stormy sky; two men in prayer before a cross. Engraving by J. Roberts after R. Wilson.