The forest flora of South Australia.

Adelaide: E. Spiller, Government Printer, 1882-1890.
Folio, coloured titlepage plus 45 chromolithographs, each with an accompanying text leaf. Nine parts in original printed wrappers, all contained in early rexine box and envelope. The inevitable slight chipping of some wrappers and a few spots, the final leaf of part four crudely repaired, a very good set of an item often in poor condition.

John Ednie Brown was a talented botanist who arrived in Adelaide from Scotland in 1878 to take up a position as Conservator of Forests. In 1890 he became the Director-General of Forests in New South Wales and later accepted an appointment in Western Australia, where he died in 1899. The forest flora of South Australia is his best-known work.

Ferguson 7516; Nissen BBI 249.