Scotland illustrated: or, An essay of natural history, : in which are exquisitely displayed the nature of the country; the dispositions and maners of the inhabitants, and the various diseases incident to them; and likewise their proper method of cure resulting from their native medicines. And the manifold productions of nature in its threefold kingdom, (viz.) vegetable, animal and mineral, dispersed throughout the northern part of Great Brittain, which makes up the most ancient kingdom of Scotland, are now exactly collected and published together; and their various uses; (especieally medicinal and mechanical, for the necessity, as well as the accommodation of life.) Clearly laid open to all. Illustrated with near fifty copper plates. Being the work of twenty years. Published by the command of the most illustrious monarch Charles II. King of Great Brittain, &c. /
Sibbald, Robert,Sir,1641-1722.
Edinburgh : Printed by J[ames]. K[niblo]. J[oshua van]. S[olingen]. and J[ohn]. C[olmar]. and are to be sold by Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry, London,
1684.
A reissue, with cancel title page, of Scotia illustrata (Wing S3727).
Printer's names from Wing.
Text in Latin.
Includes indexes.
"Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, sive Admonitio de atlante scotico seu descriptione Scotiae antiquae et modernae" has separate title page, with imprint "in officinâ typographicâ Davidis Lindesii, M. Jacobi Kniblo, Joshuae Solingensis & Johannis Colmarii. ... M.DC.LXXXIII. [1683]", on leaf [dagger]2r.
With divisional title page on leaf *1r: Pars prima prodromi naturalis historiae Scotiae.
"Pars secunda specialis. Tomus primus de plantis Scotiae" has separate dated title page, pagination and register.
"Pars secunda specialis. Tomus secundus de animalibus ScotiÆ" has separate dated title page pagination and register.
With divisional title page on leaf ⁴L1r: Prodromi naturalis historiÆ ScotiÆ partis secundae liber quartus de mineralibus metallis et marinis Scotiae·.
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Natural history
Medicine
Scotland Edinburgh.