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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 ... Translated ... by Thomas Martyn ... The second edition, with corrections and improvements.

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Soulsby no.:

Soulsby no. 702

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Publisher:

B. White & Son

Place of publication:

London

Publishing year:

1787

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Physical description:

xxv, 500 pages ; (8o)

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Language(s):

English

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B.D., F.R.S.
MARTYN, Thomas

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003173293

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

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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.

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Martyn's botany letters.

Soulsby no.:

Soulsby no. 702

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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.

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Language(s):

English

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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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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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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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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 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.

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Language(s):

English, French

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Provenance:

Hosack, David, 1769-1835 Reilley Collection 111 (EKR copy)

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Subject:

Plants Classification

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Martyn, Thomas,
1735-1825.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
1712-1778.

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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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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.

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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.

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Subject:

Botany
Classification
Classification system: Linnaeus.
18th century.

Additional author(s):

Martyn, Thomas
(1735/6-1825).
Barclay, George.
Cory, Reginald Radcliffe
(1871-1934)

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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.