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The anatomy of vegetables begun : with a general account of vegetation founded thereon

by: Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712; Brouncker, William Brouncker, Viscount, 1620 or 21-1684; Hickman, Spencer, fl. 1670-1672, publisher; Dickson, Hugh, former owner. DSI; Royal Society (Great Britain); Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1672

Topics: Plant anatomy, Botany

Publisher: London : Printed for Spencer Hickman ... at the Rose in S. Pauls Church-Yard

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

"Thursday, Novemb. 9, 1671, at a meeting of the council of the R. Society. Ordered, that the discourse presented to the R. Society, entitul'd, The anatomy of vegetables ... by N. Grew, M.D., be printed by Spencer Hickman, one of the printers of the R. Society. Brouncker pres."--P. [2] (1st group)

Title printed within a double-ruled border

The last page is misnumbered as 198 for 186; the volume also has several other errors in pagination

"The explication of the figures" has a special half-title

Errata: p. [32] (1st group)

Signatures: AaB-O(leaves N6 and O8 are blank)

Dibner Library. Heralds of Science (1980 ed.)

ESTC (online)

SCDIRB copy 39088015653710 has the autograph of a former owner on t.p.: Hugh Dickson

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has a later full leather binding with raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, and marbled edges; re-backed; housed in a brown buckram clamshell box with gilt-tooled red leather spine label

Notes

various pagination errors.

Addeddate: 2012-07-17 17:10:32

Associated-names: Brouncker, William Brouncker, Viscount, 1620 or 21-1684; Hickman, Spencer, fl. 1670-1672, publisher; Dickson, Hugh, former owner; Royal Society (Great Britain); Burndy Library, donor