Historia plantarum : species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. : In qua agitur primò de plantis in genere, earúmque partibus, accidentibus & differentiis; deinde genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad species usque infimas, notis suis certis & characteristicis definita, methodo natur vestigiis insistente disponuntur; species singul accurate describuntur, obscura illustrantur, omissa supplentur, superflua resecantur, synonyma necessaria adjiciuntur; vires denique & usus recepti compendiò traduntur. / Auctore Joanne Raio, ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, John, 1627-1705.

Contributor:

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Botany.

Botany--Philippines.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 38 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Londini : Typis Mari Clark : Prostant apud Henricum Faithorne RegiSocietatis typographum, ..., 1686-1704.

Notes:

Text in Latin, selected terms also in English (identified in black letter)

Vol. 2 has title: Joannis Raii Histori plantarum tomus secundus : cum duplici indice; generali altero nominum & synonymorum prcipuorum; altero affectuum & remediorum : accessit Nomenclator botanicus Anglo-Latinus.

Vol. 3 has title: Joannis Raii, Societatis Regi Socii, Histori plantarum tomus tertius : qui est supplementum duorum prcendentium : species omnes vel omissas, vel post volumina illa evulgata editas, prter innumeras fere novas & indictas ab amicis communicatas complectens : cum synonymis necessariis, et usibus in cibo, medicina, & mechanicis : addito ad opus consummandum generum indice copioso. : Accessit Historia stirpium Ins. Luzonis & reliquarum Philippinarum / a R. P. Geo. Jos. Camello, Moravo-Brunensi, S.J. conscripta. ; Item D. Jos. Pitton Tournefort, ... Corollarium institutionum rei herbari. Londini : Apud Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford, Reg. Soc. typographos, ... , 1704.

Vol. 1: [26?], 58, (59)-(62), 59-983, [1] p. (the last page blank) ; v. 2: [8], 985-1350, [2], 1351-1944, [36] p. (the last page blank) ; v. 3: [2], ix, [1], 40, 43-666, 135, [1], 112, 225-255, [9] p. (the last page blank)

Authorities differ as to whether vol. 1 should have an initial blank leaf. Cf. Keynes, G. Ray; Grolier 100 science.

Includes indexes.

Errata: v. 1, p. [16] of 1st group, v. 2, p. [8] of 1st group, and v. 3, p. [8] of last group.

The extracts from Tournefort's "Corollarium institutionum rei herbariae" (v. 3, p. 97-112 of 8th group) have running title: Appendix. Plant orientales à D. Jos. Pit. Tournefort observat.

Vol. 2 has date: M D CLXXXVIII. [1688]

Camellus's contribution has caption title: Appendix. Herbarum aliarumque stirpium in insulâ Luzone Philippinarum primariâ nascentium, / a Revdo Patre Georgio Camello, S.J. observatarum & descriptarum syllabus: ; ad Joannem Raium transmissus; ...

"Explicatio nominum abbreviatorum & recensio operum ab eisdem autoribus editorum": volume 1, pages [11]-[16] of 1st group.

Local Notes:

Founders copy imperfect: v.3 wanting

Cited in:

Wing R394.

Keynes, G. Ray, 48-49, 51.

Grolier 100 science 87.

Contains:

Camel, Georg Joseph, 1661-1706. Herbarum aliarumque stirpium in Insula Luzone Philippinarum primaria nascentium ... syllabus. 1686-1704.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708. Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariae. Selections. 1686.

Historia stirpium Ins. Luzonis & reliquarum Philippinarum.

Plant orientales à D. Jos. Pit. Tournefort observat.

OCLC:

2126030