"Stolen from me"

Banks, Joseph, English naturalist (1743-1820). 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".

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