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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Single Works. Botanique
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Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady ... Translated into English, with notes and twenty-four additional letters, by T. Martyn.
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Soulsby no. 701

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London
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1785
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(8o)
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English

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B.D., F.R.S.
MARTYN, Thomas
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
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Letters on the Elements of Botany : Addressed to a Lady / by ... J. J. Rousseau ; translated with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnæus. By Thomas Martyn.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 701

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printed for B. White and Son
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London
Publishing year:
1785
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Physical description:
XXIII, [1], 503, [29] s., [1] falset tav.
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Language(s):
English

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Martyn, Thomas
Linné, Carl von
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady [Madame de Lessert] by the celebrated J.J. Rousseau : translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the System of Linnæus / by Thomas Martyn.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 701

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Printed for B. White and Son
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London
Publishing year:
1785
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xxiii[i], 503, [29] p. : 1 folded chart ; 23 cm.
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Language(s):
English

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Cf. Smith (P.) Lady, Memoir and Correspondence of ... Sir James Edward Smith, &c. Vol. 1. p. 293. 1832
Cf. also Smith (Sir J. K.) F.R.S. A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent in the years 1786 and 1787. Vol. 1. pp. 110-111. 1793
Cf. also Lasègue (A.) Musée Botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert. pp. 43-44. 1845. Benjamin was the son of Madame Delessert.
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NHM GENERAL - Signatures 'Ann Booth Jany, 1787' and 'C Scuyler' (?) on a preliminary page.
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In English.
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Additional author(s):
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
Martyn, Thomas,
1735-1825.
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Philosophia botanica
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Indices of English and Latin names, orders of plants, and botanical terms, on the last 28 unnumbered pages at the end of the volume.
NHM GENERAL - B. Quaritch. 20.iv.1927. 9/-.
NHM GENERAL - Annotations on p. 88. Bibliographical notations in pencil on a preliminary page.
NHM GENERAL - The book has been rebound.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778).
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Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.
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Letters on the elements of botany : Addressed to a lady / By the celebrated J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnæus. By Thomas Martyn, B.D. Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 701

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Publisher:
B. White and Son
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1785
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Physical description:
Pp. xxiii, [i], 503, [28] : folding table ; 22.3 cm.
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Language(s):
English

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A dried flower has been loosely inserted at Y2.
Full imprint statement. London: Printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet-street. M.DCC.LXXXV.
Following p. 134 is a folding table giving Linnaeus's system of classification.
Press figures. A5v: 6. A8v: 1. a1v: 3. B7v: 3. B8v: 1. C8r: 5. C8v: 5. D2v: 6. D8r: 6. E2v: 6. E3v: 6. F1v: 2. F8v: 2. G1v: 3. G5r: 6. H6r: 5.H8v: 5. I8r: 2. K1v: 1. K6v: 1. L2v: 2. L6r: 2. M5r: 6. M7r: 2. N6v: 4. N7v: 4. O4v: 6. O7v: 6. P1v: 4. P2v: 1. Q5r: 6. R5v: 6. R8v: 6. S3v: 2. S5r: 5. T2v: 2. T7v: 6. U8r: 3. X3v: 3. X4v: 1. Y7v: 5. Y8v: 1. Z1v: 1. Z2v: 5. Aa5v: 1. Aa7r: 1. Bb1v: 2. Bb2v: 2. Cc5v: 1. Cc8v: 2. Dd6v: 5. Dd7v: 2. Ee2v: 2. Ee7v: 1. Ff1v: 1. Ff2v: 3. Gg3v: 3. Gg6v: 3. Hh1v: 2. Hh2v: 2. Ii6v: 2. Ii 8r: 6. Kk2v: 3. Mm1v: 2.
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Front pastedown bears an engraved armorial bookplate with coronet and Garter motto, but no name.
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Botany
Classification
Classification system: Linnaeus.
18th century.
Additional author(s):
Martyn, Thomas
(1735/6-1825).
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Benjamin White (London, England)
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Bound in full speckled sheep, with gilt single fillets on boards. Rebacked in [textured sheep?] with five raised bands flanked by blind double fillets. Red morocco lettering-piece with gilt double fillets and title: LETTERS / ON / BOTANY / BY / ROUSSEAU. The name MARTYN is gold-tooled in a lower panel, and the date 1785 at the base of the spine. Gilt single fillets on board edges, and gilt guilloches on turn-ins. Yellow edges. Endpapers marbled in green spot pattern.