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Author:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Uniform title:
Single Works. Botanique
Title:
Letters on the elements of botany ... Translated ... by Thomas Martyn ... The second edition, with corrections and improvements.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 702

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Publisher:
B. White & Son
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1787
Edition:
Physical description:
xxv, 500 pages ; (8o)
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Language(s):
English

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Additional author(s):
B.D., F.R.S.
MARTYN, Thomas
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OPAC identifier:
003173293
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Author:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Title:
Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady [Madame Delessert] 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:
Martyn's botany letters.
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 702

Edition details

Publisher:
Printed for B. White and Son
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1787
Edition:
2nd edition / with corrections and improvements.
Physical description:
xxv, 500, [28] p. : 1 folded chart ; 22 cm.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English

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Provenance:
NHM GENERAL - Signature 'Richard Besty ---93' on front endpaper. Inscription 'Ellen Mary Vaissiere from her most affectionate Uncle James Woolfe Roberts' on front flyleaf.
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Language notes:
In English.
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Subject:
Additional author(s):
Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778
Martyn, Thomas,
1735-1825.
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Additional title(s):
Philosophia botanica
OPAC identifier:
9922689502081
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Indices of English and Latin names, orders of plants, and botanical terms, on unnumbered pages at the end.
NHM GENERAL - Stevens & Brown. 30.v.1923. 6/6.
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Author:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Uniform title:
Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.
Title:
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 Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn.
Varying title form:
Soulsby no.:
Soulsby no. 702.

Edition details

Publisher:
Printed for B. White and son
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1787
Edition:
2d ed. with corrections and improvements.
Physical description:
xxiv, 500, [28] p. 22 cm.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English, French

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Contents notes:
Provenance:
Hosack, David, 1769-1835 Reilley Collection 111 (EKR copy)
Title history:
Language notes:
With note:
Dissertation notes:
Subject:
Plants Classification
Additional author(s):
Martyn, Thomas,
1735-1825.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
1712-1778.
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OPAC identifier:
ocm03132843
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Copy 3 bound with: Thirty-eight plates, with explantations ... / by Thomas Martyn. London : Printed for B. White, 1788.
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Author:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778).
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Main entry uniform title:
Uniform title:
Lettres élémentaires sur la botanique.
Title:
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. 702

Edition details

Publisher:
B. White and Son
Place of publication:
London
Publishing year:
1787
Edition:
Second edition, with corrections and improvements.
Physical description:
Pp. [ii], xxv, 500, [28] folding table ; 22.3 cm.
Series entry:
Language(s):
English

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Full imprint statement. London: Printed for B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet-street. M,DCC,LXXXVII.
Page no. xxii is misnumbered "xii".
Press figures. A3v: 2. A8v: 1. b3v: 1. B8r: 1. C5r: 1. C6r: 3. D2v: 2. D6r: 2. E7v: 2. E8v: 1. F7v: 2. G3v: 2. G5r: 1. H2v: 2. I5r: 2. I6r: 1. K2v: 2. K3v: 1. L1v: 1. M3v: 1. M7r: 2. N1v: 2. O1v: 1. O7r: 2. Q6r: 2. Q8v: 1. R6r: 1. R6v: 2. S3v: 2. S8v: 1. T8r: 2. U3v: 1. X2v: 3. X6r: 1. Y7v: 2. Y8v: 1. Z2v: 1. Aa3v: 3. Bb7v: 1. Dd6v: 1. Ee1v: 3. Ee2v: 1. Ff8v: 1. Gg8r: 3. Ii7r: 1. Kk1v: 1. Kk6v: 3.
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Provenance:
Reginald Cory bequest, 1936. Front pastedown bears an engraved armorial bookplate of George Barclay. The signature of Emily Barclay is written in pencil on the fly-leaf.
Title history:
Language notes:
With note:
Dissertation notes:
Subject:
Botany
Classification
Classification system: Linnaeus.
18th century.
Additional author(s):
Martyn, Thomas
(1735/6-1825).
Barclay, George.
Cory, Reginald Radcliffe
(1871-1934)
Additional corporate author(s):
Benjamin White (London, England)
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Bound in full calf, with gilt decorative borders on boards. Spine with five raised bands bearing gilt dotted lines and flanked by blind single fillets. Black morocco lettering-piece with gilt dotted lines and title: ROUSSEAU / AND / MARTYN'S / BOTANY. Gold tooling on board edges, and blind tooling on turn-ins. Speckled edges. Endpapers marbled in green spot pattern.