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 naturae vestigiis insistente disponuntur; species singulae accurate describuntur, obscura illustrantur, omissa supplentur, superflua resecantur, synonyma necessaria adjiciuntur; vires denique & usus recepti compendiò traduntur. Auctore Joanne Raio, e Societate Regiâ, & SS. Individuae Trinitatis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses quondam socio.
John Ray (1627-1705)
Category
Books
Date
1686 - 1704
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3028633
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; fol. Running number: 5510. Top corner of vol. 1 front fly-leaf torn out to remove inscription. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 3. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "5:0:0". Manuscript price inscription on vol. 2 front fly-leaf: "Volum: ii pret. 05lt. 00: 00:". Binding: late seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt spines with fillet, roll and stamp tooling; gilt title and vol. number on brown leather label on spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Ray (1627-1705), author Georg Joseph Camel (1661 - 1706), author Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), author