A system of vegetables. According to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... / Translated from the thirteenth ed. (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 [i.e. E. Darwin, etc].

  • Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.
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A system of vegetables. According to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences ... / Translated from the thirteenth ed. (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 [i.e. E. Darwin, etc]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Systema vegetabilium. English

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Lichfield : Printed by J. Jackson for Leigh and Sotheby, 1783.

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2 volumes, XI plates ; (8vo)

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Paged continuously; v. 1: 2 p.l., ii, lvi, 424 p.; v. 2: 1 p.l., [425]-897 p., 1 l., [30] p
Vol. 1 has special t.-p. dated 1782
Each plate 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," 1784: 1 l., [30] p. at end of v. 2
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: Plates signed by E. Stringer. With bookplate and stamp of Marquis of Stafford and signatures 'Gower' and 'Sutherland'--probably 2nd Marquis (created 1st Duke of Sutherland in 1833, the year of his death)

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Soulsby 580a

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