Historia plantarum species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. : In qua agitur primo de plantis in genere, earumque partibus, accidentibus & differentiis; deinde genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad species usque infimas, notis suis certis & characteristicis definita, methodo naturae vestigiis insistente disponuntur; species singulae accurate describuntur, obscura illustrantur, omissa supplentur, superflua resecantur, synonyma necessaria adjiciuntur; vires denique & usus recepti compendiò traduntur. /
Ray, John,1627-1705.
Londini: : Typis Mariae Clark: prostant apud Henricum Faithorne Regiae Societatis Typographum, ad Insigne Rosae in Coemeterio D. Pauli,,
M D CLXXXVI. [1686-1704]
Title and imprint from volume 1.
Volume 1 is of the second state of issue A with the imprimatur leaf (cf. Henrey).
Title to volume 2 reads: Joannis Raii Historiae plantarum tomus secundus: cum duplici indice; generali altero nominum & synonymorum praecipuorum; altero affectuum & remediorum: accessit nomenclator botanicus Anglo-Latinus.
Volume 2 is dated 1688.
Title to volume 3 reads: Joannis Raii, Societatis Regiae Socii, Historiae plantarum tomus tertius: qui est supplementum duorum praecedentium: species omnes vel omissas, vel post volumina illa evulgata editas, praeter innumeras fere novas & indicatas ab amicis communicatas complectens: cum synonymis necessariis, et usibus in cibo, medicina, & mechanicis: addito ad opus consummandum generum indice copioso. ...
Imprint to volume 3 reads: Londini: Apud Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford, Reg. Soc. Typographos, & Insignia Principis in Area Boreali D. Pauli, M D CCIV. [1704]
Volume 2 and 3 include index.
Wing records volume 1 and 2 separately.
Title pages to volume 1 and 3 in red and black.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Wing (2nd ed.)
Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.,
Kelly, W. A. Catalogue of James Sutherland's library,
Pritzel
ESTC
Botany