A new illustration of the sexual system of Linnæus : By Robert John Thornton, M.D. late of Trinity College, Cambridge. Physician to the general dispensary: Fellow of the London Medical Society, lecturer on medical botany at Guy's Hospital; author of Medical extracts on the nature of health and Letters to Dr. Beddoes on the application and theory of pneumatic medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.

Standardized Title:

New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates ) ports. ;

Other Title:

New illustration of the sexual system of Linnµus

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1799.

Notes:

Another version of Robert John Thorntons̀ 'New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus'.

Half-title, engraved, of vol. 1: 'The philosophy of botany', and the half-title of vol. 2: 'Book second. A botanical and philosophical enquiry respecting roots'.

Titlepage of vol. 2 reads: 'The genera of exotic and indigenous plants'.

The titlepages to both volumes are engraved as well as one of the two dedication leaves in vol. 1.

"The work was advertised in 1797, and seems to have been issued in parts at twenty-five shillings each between 1799 and 1807. In its best state it is a very splendid work, .. but its bibliography is very difficult, hardly two copies being alike" (DNB).

Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T226335.

OCLC:

510730652