Historia plantarum :
species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. : In qua agitur primò de plantis in genere, earúmque partibus, accidentibus & differentiis; deinde genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad species usque infimas, notis suis certis & characteristicis definita, methodo naturæ vestigiis insistente disponuntur; species singulæ accurate describuntur, obscura illustrantur, omissa supplentur, superflua resecantur, synonyma necessaria adjiciuntur; vires denique & usus recepti compendiò traduntur. /
Auctore Joanne Raio, e Societate Regia, & SS. indivduae Trinitatis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses quondam socio.
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Faithorne, Henry, active 1681-1688, bookseller.
Clark, Mary, active 1677-1696, printer.
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708.
Camel, Georg Joseph, 1661-1706.
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Latin ; English
- Published
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Londini : Typis Mariæ Clark : MDCLXXXVI [1686]-[1704].
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Numerous errors in pagination.
Signatures: vol. 1: pi1 A⁶ a⁶ B-E⁶ F1.5 chi² F6 G-4O⁶; vol. 2: ²A⁶ 4P-5V⁶ 5X⁸ 5Y1 [dagger]1 5Y2.6 5Z-8A⁶ 8B⁴ ²a⁴ b-c⁴ d⁶. 5A3 mis-signed 4Z3.
Camellus's contribution has caption title: Appendix. Herbarum aliarumque stirpium in insulâ Luzone Philippinarum primariâ nascentium, / a Revdo Patre Georgio Camello, S.J. observatarum & descriptarum syllabus: ; ad Joannem Raium transmissus; ...
Vol. 2 has date: M D CLXXXVIII. [1688]
The extracts from Tournefort's "Corollarium institutionum rei herbariae" (v. 3, p. 97-112 of 8th group) have running title: Appendix. Plantæ orientales à D. Jos. Pit. Tournefort observatæ.
Errata: v. 1, p. [16] of 1st group, v. 2, p. [8] of 1st group, and v. 3, p. [8] of last group.
Includes indexes.
Authorities differ as to whether vol. 1 should have an initial blank leaf. Cf. Keynes, G. Ray; Grolier 100 science.
Vol. 1: [26?], 58, (59)-(62), 59-983, [1] p. (the last page blank) ; v. 2: [8], 985-1350, [2], 1351-1944, [36] p. (the last page blank) ; v. 3: [2], ix, [1], 40, 43-666, 135, [1], 112, 225-255, [9] p. (the last page blank)
Moravo-Brunensi, S.J. conscripta. ; Item D. Jos. Pitton Tournefort, ... Corollarium institutionum rei herbariæ. Londini : Apud Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford, Reg. Soc. typographos, ... , 1704.
Vol. 3 has title: Joannis Raii, Societatis Regiæ Socii, Historiæ plantarum tomus tertius : qui est supplementum duorum præcendentium : species omnes vel omissas, vel post volumina illa evulgata editas, præter innumeras fere novas & indictas ab amicis communicatas complectens : cum synonymis necessariis, et usibus in cibo, medicina, & mechanicis : addito ad opus consummandum generum indice copioso. : Accessit Historia stirpium Ins. Luzonis & reliquarum Philippinarum / a R. P. Geo. Jos. Camello,
Vol. 2 has title: Joannis Raii Historiæ plantarum tomus secundus : cum duplici indice; generali altero nominum & synonymorum præcipuorum; altero affectuum & remediorum : accessit Nomenclator botanicus Anglo-Latinus.
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3 v. :
ill. ;
38 cm. (fol.)
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