Almagestum botanicum sive Phytographiæ Pluc’netianæ onomasticon methodo syntheticâ digestum. exhibens stirpium exoticarum, rariorum, novarumque nomina, quæ descriptionis locum supplere possunt. Cui (ad ampliandum regnum vegetabilium) accessêre plantæ circitèr quingentæ suis nominibus similitèr insignitæ; quæ nullibi nisi in hoc opere (sex ferè platarum chiliadas complectente) memorantur. Adjiciuntur & aliquot novarum plantarum icones in gratiam phylophytosophorum in lucem nùnc editæ.
Leonard Plukenet (1642-1706)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3191773
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 402, [4] p., CCLI-CCCXXVIII plates : ill. ; 4to. Imperfect: lacks separate dated titlepage to plates. (Infact bound in with author's edition of 1700 also in this library.) Provenance: eighteenth-century sepia armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gold fillet and blind roll border; gold tooled spine (remnants); five raised bands; gold lettered spine label.
Makers and roles
Leonard Plukenet (1642-1706) Michael Vandergucht (Antwerp 1660 – London 1725)