"Stolen from me"
Autograph letter signed ("Jos. Banks").
Soho Square (London), 25. VI. 1783.
4to. 2 pp.
€ 6,500.00
Concerning a botanical plate of the plant Brucea (named after the Scottish explorer James Bruce) published by John John Frederick Miller: "He was employed by me as a draughtsman for some time and discharged for insufficiency [...] almost all that he has published are like this stolen from me".






