Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium
Subtitle: in quo exhibentur quotquot hactenus inventae sunt, quae vel sponte proveniunt, vel in agris seruntur ; unà cum synonymis selectioribus, locis natalibus & observationibus quibusdam oppido raris ; adjiciuntur in gratiam tyronum index Anglico-latinus, index locorum, etymologia nominum & explicatio quorundam terminorum
Publisher: Excudebat Joann. Field, eleberrimae Academiæ typographus. Impensis Gulielmi Nealand, bibliopolae
Published: 1660
Place of publication: Cantabrigiae [Cambridge, England]
Language: lat; eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Plants; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Botany; Early works to 1800..; Catalogs; Indexes
Other titles: Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis, in quo nomina Anglica Latinis praeponuntur ordine alphabetico : in gratium tyronum.
Notes: "[T]he first work of the influential British Botanist John Ray (1627-1705), dealing with plants in and around Cambridge, where Ray studied.

Title printed in red and black.

Title pages were printed on both *1 and *2, the former apparently being intended to correct the latter (which has "Catalogus .. in qua exhibentur") and *2 intended to be cancelled. Variant 1: with "in qua" title page; *1 cancelled. Variant 2: both title pages present.

Issue with rule above imprint printed in red and the 'a' of "agris" aligned below the 'o' of "sponte". Canceled t.p. has the rule above the imprint printed in black and the 'a' of "agris" aligned below the 'n' of "sponte".

"Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis ..." has separate dated title page and pagination; signatures are continuous.

By John Ray, cf. Stafleu & Cowan.

Cambridge University Press emblem in last page at end: motto "Hinc lucem et pocula sacra", featuring the alma mater ("nourishing mother") of Cambridge with a sun in one hand, representing enlightenment, and in the other a cup collecting droplets from the sky, representing spiritual sustenance.

"Explicatio nominum autorum citatorum, è C. Bauhino praecipué": unnumbered pages 19-30 (1st group).

Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), 8695

Keynes, G. The Bibliography of John Ray, p. 1-6

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 7431

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 7432

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 285

Latin text with explanations in English or Latin.

Lib. copy has manuscript former owner's inscription, the late 17th-century Brentwood physician Simon Rutland, on a stub at end of book (stub inside the back cover).

Lib. copy pagination begins with title page.

Lib. copy title page has "Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium : in quo exhibentur..."; lacks erroneous title page.

Lib. copy issued with rule above imprint printed in red and the 'a' of "agris" aligned below the 'o' of "sponte".

Lib. copy signatures: Signatures: *⁸( -*1,2+pi1) **⁸ A-S⁸ (S8 blank); signature B2 unsigned.

Lib. copy lacks signature *2, which contained an uncorrected/erroneous title page.

Lib. copy pagination part [1]: [30], 182 pages ; part [2]: [2], 103, [1] (last page blank); 28 unnumbered blank pages at end, several with ink script or graphite writing..

Lib. copy has 28 unnumbered blank pages at end of part 2, several with graphite or ink writing.

With: Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis in quo nomina Anglica Latinis praeponuntur ordine alphabetico : in gratium tyronum. Cantabrigiae : Excudebat Joann. Field, celeberimae academiae typographus, 1660, as issued.