Observations topographical, moral, and physiological; made in a journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with a catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their Virtues / By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society. Whereunto is added a brief account of Francis Willughby Esq; his voyage through a great part of Spain.

London : Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1673.

8 p.*b., 499 pages, 4*b., 115 pages : illustrations, engr. plates (some folded), woodcut illustrations, portrait ; (8vo)

Wing R399

Keynes 21

ESTC R5715

Keynes, G. John Ray, 21

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R399

"A Relation of a Voyage made through a great part of Spain by Francis Willughby Esq: ": p. 466-499

The "Catalogue of plants" is in Latin and has special title-page and pagination, although the signatures are continuous: Catalogus Stirpium in Exteris Regionibus A nobis Observatarum, Quae vel non omnino vel parce admodum in Anglia Sponte proveniunt. Londini: Typis Andreae Clark, Impensi J. Martyn Regalis Societatis Typographi, apud quem prostant ad insigne Campanae in Coemetrio Divi Pauli. MDCLXXIII

Initials

Issued in 1738 as V.1 of the author's Travels through the Low-countries

First edition

Signatures: A-Z, Aa-Ii⁸, Kk², Aaa-Ggg⁸, Hhh⁶.

Copy 1 Note: Main t.p. inscribed 'Martin Lister. A gift of ye authour'. Flyleaf inscribed 'J. Lister Aug. ye 22o 1705'. MS. index (1 l.) at end. Signature of P.H. Pye-Smith on modern flyleaf.

Copy 3 Note: 'Catalogus stirpium' only. With MS. notes and corrections in a contemporary hand.