Shelfmark
Ga.8.02
Author
Ray, John, 1627 - 1705 author.
Uniform title
[Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum.]
Title
Joannis Raii Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum, : tum indigenis, tum in agris cultis, locis suis dispositis, additis generum characteristicis, specierum descriptionibus, & virium epitome.
Varying form of title
De methodo plantarum.
Edition
Editio secunda: in qua præter multas stirpes & observationes curiosas sparsim insertas; muscorum historia negligenter hactenus & perfunctoriè tradita plurimùm illustratur & augetur, additis & descriptis centum circiter speciebus (totidémq[ue] fucorum atque etiam fungorum) novis & indictis. Accessit clariss. viri D. Aug. Rivini epistola ad Joan. Raium de methodo: cum ejusdem responsoria, in qua D. Tournefort Elementa botanica tanguntur.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : impensis S. Smith & B. Walford, Regiæ Societatis Typograph. ad insignia Principis in Coemeterio D. Pauli, MDCXCVI. [1696]
Physical description
[40], 346, [22], 55, [1] pages ; 20 cm. (8vo.)
Language
Chiefly in Latin, with some references to common English plant names.
Note
Includes index.
Note
With errata and a separate pasted-on errata slip on ²D4v.
Note
Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ B-Aa⁸, ²A-²C⁸ ²D⁴.
Note
"De methodo plantarum viri clarissimi D. Augusti Quirini Rivini" has a separate dated title-leaf (²A1). This part of the work may also have been issued separately (see ESTC R182742).
Note
With a preliminary imprimatur leaf reading "22. die Januarii. 1689. Imprimatur. John Hoskyns, VPRS."
Citation/references note
Wing, R407
Citation/references note
ESTC, R17299
Provenance
Inscription on title-page: San: Cooper.
Provenance
Inscription on title-page, partly obliterated: Deliverance Larkhouse[?].
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Late 16th or early 17th century sprinkled calf, with central panel left bare; blind tooled double fillet frames with tulip fleurons at each corner; gold tooled zigzag roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled title and double fillet; four raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Copy bound in a different order from the ESTC copy: 'De methodo plantarum viri clarissimi D. Augusti Quirini Rivini' bound between leaves A4 and a1 of first register sequence.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ff.6.10.
Copy-specific note
Occasional annotations and underscoring.
Subject
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656 - 1708 Élémens de botanique.
Subject
Subject
Plants Classification Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany Great Britain Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Smith, Samuel, active 1681 - 1703 publisher.
Added entry--name
Walford, Benjamin, ? - d. ca. 1710 publisher.
Added entry--name
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656 - 1708 Élémens de botanique.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Ray, John, 1627 - 1705 Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
lat eng
Identifier
B46439