The vegetable system : Or, a series of experiments, and observations tending to explain the internal structure, and the life of plants; their Growth, and Propagation; The number, proportion, and disposition of their constituent parts; with the true course of their Juices; The formation of the embryo, the construction of the Seed, and the encrease from that State to perfection. Including a new anatomy of plants. The whole from nature only. By John Hill, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, John, 1714?-1775.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pictorial works.

Botany.

Botany--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26v.,plates )

Other Title:

Vegetable system.

Place of Publication:

London : printed at the expence of the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLIX. [1759]

Notes:

Titlepage of vol. 1 in red and black.

After vol. 1 the title reads: 'The vegetable system. Or, the internal structure, and the life of plants, ..'.

Vol. 3 continues the pagination and register of vol. 2, part 1.

The imprints to vols. 8-15 include J. Ridley; that to vol. 16 adds J. Nourse, L. Davis, T. Becket and Co., P. Elmsly and J. Campbell; those to vols. 17-18 omit L. Davis, and alter Becket to T. Becket; those to vols. 19-21 add J. Balfour; those to vols. 22-23 add B. White and L. Davis, T. Becket now omitted; those to vols. 24-25 add J. Robson; that to vol. 26 reads: printed for the author: and sold by T. Trueman.

Vol. 1 dated 1759; vols. 2-3 1761; vol. 4 1762; vol. 5 1763; vols. 6-7 1764; vols. 8-10 1765; vols. 11-12 1767; vol. 13 1768; vols. 14-15 1769; vols. 16-17 1770; vols. 18-19 1771; vols. 20-21 1772; vols. 22-23 1773; vols. 24-25 1774 and vol. 26 1775.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Henrey, 832

English Short Title Catalog, T50668.

OCLC:

642619372