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Title

A system of vegetables : according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences : 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.

Author

Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.

Publication

Lichfield : Printed by John Jackson for Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden, 1782-1783.

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Additional Authors

• Linné, Carl von, 1741-1783.
• Elmgren, Johan
• Stringer, E.
• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.

Description

2 v. : ill.; 22 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

Alphabetical catalogue of English and Scotch names of plants, from the most approved botanical writers, refer'd to their respective genera.

Subject

• Plants > Classification > Early works to 1800
• Plant names, Popular > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco > Nomenclature > Early works to 1800

Note

• The title page of v. 1 is dated 1782 and lacks the words "Vol. 1" appearing on t.p. of another issue dated 1783; v. 1 also lacks half title "A system of vegetables in two volumes." Soulsby considered the BM (Natural History) copy of this issue "probably a proof copy of vol. 1 of the 1783 edition ... It seems to be unique"; in fact, several copies are recorded, including Hunt's.
• Title page of v. 2 includes statement "in two volumes."
• The translators included Erasmus Darwin.
• Paged continuously; v. 1: [2], ii, lvi, 424 p., XI [i.e. 22] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], [425]-897, [33] p.
• Signatures: Vol. 1: [*A-*B]⁴ *C-*F⁴ *G² *H⁴ A-3G⁴; v. 2: A-Z⁴ 2A⁴ (-2A4) 2B-3O⁴, chi-4chi⁴.
• Illustrations: 11 prints : etching ; full-page. Signed E. Stringer sclp. Each accompanied by conjugate leaf of descriptive letterpress.
• "Botanic terms and definitions" (translated from the thesis of Johan Elmgren): 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," 1784: [32] p. at end of v. 2.
• "Nicotiana: Tabacum fruticosa, rustica, paniculata, urens, glutinosa, pusilla": p. 178.
• "Errata": p. [xlviii]. "Corrigenda": p. 843.
• Includes indexes.

Indexed In (note)

• Hunt botanical cat.
• Soulsby, B.H. Linnaeus

Call Number

Arents 95-501

LCCN

05036993 //r932

OCLC

NYPG95-B7062

Author

Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.

Title

A system of vegetables : according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences : 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.

Imprint

Lichfield : Printed by John Jackson for Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden, 1782-1783.

Indexed In:

Hunt botanical cat., II, 665

Soulsby, B.H. Linnaeus, 580, 580a

Local Note

Pages [xlix]-lvi (sig. *H) of v. 1 ("Alphabetical index of Latin terms, with their translations") were issued with v. 2; in Arents copy, bound at end of v. 2.

Binding: Contemporary quarter tobacco brown calf, gilt, and mottled brown paste paper boards.

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Added Author

Linné, Carl von, 1741-1783. Supplementum plantarum systematis vegetabilis. English. 1781.

Elmgren, Johan.

Stringer, E. Etcher

Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.

Added Title

Alphabetical catalogue of English and Scotch names of plants, from the most approved botanical writers, refer'd to their respective genera.

Research Call Number

Arents 95-501