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Dreyhundert auserlesne amerikanische Gewächse nach Linneischer Ordnung. Des ersten Hunderts, erste Hälfte. [-Des dritten Hunderts zwote Hälfte. Von Tab. 251. bis 300.].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QK98 .J34 1785 3 v. (v.1-3)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zorn, Johannes, 1739-1799.
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--West Indies.
- Botany.
- West Indies.
- Botany--South America.
- South America.
- Botany--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes (v.1: 15 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 17 unnumbered pages-22 pages, 100 leaves of plates; volumes2: 23 unnumbered pages-34 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 35 unnumbered pages-44 pages, 100 unnumbered leaves of plates; volumes3: 45 unnumbered pages-56 pages, 57 unnumbered pages-72 pages, 100 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Amerikanische Gewächse nach Linneischer Ordnung.
- Place of Publication:
- Nürnberg, : auf Kosten der Raspischen Buchhandlung., 1785-1788.
- Notes:
- Authorship of text according to Holzmann & Bohatta, Nissen and Stafleu. Plates mostly copied, on a reduced scale, from Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von. Nicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum stirpium Americanarium historia. Vienna, 1780-1781.
- Each volume published in two parts, with separate title pages, but continuous paging and signatures.
- Title pages for v.1, part 2 - v.3, part 2 read: Amerikanische Gewächse nach Linneischer Ordnung.
- Variations in designation of volume and part number for v.2-3: Des zweiten Hunderts, erste Hälfte von Tab. 101. bis 150.; Des zweiten Hunderts zwote Hälfte von Tab. 151. bis 200.; Des dritten Hunderts erste Hälfte von Tab. 201. bis 250.
- Volume 1, part 2 and v.2, part 1 dated 1786; v.2, part 2 and v.3, part 1 dated 1787.
- Vignette on title pages.
- Signatures: v.2: A-B4 [C-D; exact collation not available] (A1 verso, B4 verso blank); v.2: E4 F2 G4 H2 (E1 verso, G1 verso blank); v.3: I4 K2 L-M4 (I1 verso, L1 verso blank).
- Plates numbered 1-300. Plates printed on conjugate leaves, two per quarter sheet and facing each other.
- Includes index.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 35519.
- Palmer, P.M. German works on Amer., 344.
- Dippel, H. Americana Germanica, 379.
- Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.), 2204.
- Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic lit., 1450.
- Contains:
- Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von, 1727-1817. Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
- Zorn, Johannes, 1739-1799. Icones plantarum medicinalium. 1785.
- OCLC:
- 83949236
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