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A system of vegetables : according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences : in two volumes
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Uniform Title
Systema vegetabilium. English
Title
A system of vegetables : according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences : in two volumes / translated from the thirteenth edition (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus, and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present Professor Linneus, by a botanical society, at Lichfield.
Published
Lichfield : Printed by John Jackson for Leigh and Sotheby ... London, 1783.
Physical Description
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Local Notes
BEIN 2000 2915: Mr. Liebert's ms. notes: Johnson's assistance acknowledged, p. xi. From the library of Herman W. Liebert.
Notes
"The work was issued in four parts between 1783 and 1785, and in two volumes dated '1783'"--Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, 83.1DL.
Paged continuously: v. 1: [2], ii, lvi, 424 p.; v. 2 (with separate t.p.): [4], [425]-897, [1], [30] p.
Eleven plates, each accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress.
"Botanical terms and definitions" [tr. from the thesis of Dr. Elmgren]: v. 1, p. [xiii]-xl.
"An alphabetical catalogue of English and Scotch names of plants, from the most approved botanical writers, refer'd to their respective genera" (dated 1784): [32] p. at end of v. 2.
Acknowledgement to Dr. Samuel Johnson, p. xi.
Errata on p. [xlviii] and corrigenda on p. 843.
Includes indexes.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T81060
Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, 83.1DL
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Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
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