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The universal botanist and nurseryman : containing descriptions of the species and varieties of all the trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, and fruits, natives and exotics, at present cultivated in the European nurseries, greenhouses, and stoves, or described by modern botanists; arranged according to the Linnaean system, with their names in English : to which are added a copious botanical glossary, several useful catalogues and indexes : illustrated with elegant engravings : in four volumes / by Richard Weston, Esq.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Phila. Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection QK9 .W4 1770 Vol. 1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Early works to 1800.
- Botany.
- Botany--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Botany--Bibliography--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Bibliographies.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Thomas, Samuel Hinds, Mrs. (donor)(v. 1-4)(PSPA copy)
- Townsend, E. (autograph)(v. 1-2, 4)(PSPA copy)
- Griffith, Elias (autograph)(v. 3)(PSPA copy)
- Baker, Morgan (autograph)(v. 3)(PSPA copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Botanicus universalis et hortulanus
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Bell ..., G. Riley ..., J. Wheble ..., and C. Etherington ..., 1770-77.
- Notes:
- Each vol. has added t.-p. in Latin: Botanicus universalis et hortulanus: exhibens descriptiones specierum et varietatum arborum, fruticum, herbarum, florum & fructuum, indigenorum et exoticorum, per totum orbem, seu cultivorum in hortis et viridariis europaeis, sive descriptorum botanicis hodiernis ...
- Vol. 1 dated 1770; v. 2, 1771; v. 3, 1772; v. 4, 1777.
- Imprint varies.
- The illustrations consist of 17 plates (1 folded).
- "A catalogue of the principal botanical authors and their works for above two thousand years, from Theophrastus, to the year 1770 ...": v. 4, p. [xvii]-lxxx.
- "A chronological table of botanical authors ... by ... M. Adanson in his Families des plantes": v. 4, p. [i]-xxx.
- Publisher's advertisements: [4] p. at end of v. 2; [4] p. following p. 748 in v. 4. (PSPA copy)
- Local Notes:
- PSPA copy imperfect: plates 8, 14-17 wanting; t.p. of v. 3 torn and top half wanting.
- PSPA copy vols. 2-4 misbound (cf. Directions to the bookbinders, at end of v. 4); the two authors' catalogues are bound in v. 2.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T81047
- OCLC:
- 14316296
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