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Caroli a Linné Species plantarum exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas

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Author:
Linné, Carl von 1707-1778  Search this
Editor:
Willdenow, Karl Ludwig 1765-1812  Search this
Link, Heinrich Friedrich 1767-1851  Search this
Publisher:
Nauck, Gottfried Carl 1764-1835  Search this
Author:
Schwaegrichen, F (Friedrich) 1775-1853 Species muscorum frondosorum Pars 1  Search this
Linné, Carl von 1707-1778 Index alphabeticus filicum in Caroli a Linné Specierum plantarum editione quinta cura Willdenovii : enumeratarum adjectis varietatibus nominumque genericorum et trivialium synonymia DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Wiegmann, A. P DSI  Search this
Hitchcock, A. S (Albert Spear) 1865-1935 DSI  Search this
Chase, Agnes 1869-1963 DSI  Search this
Bookseller:
Weigel, Oswald DSI  Search this
Donor:
Lubrecht, Harry 1908-1997 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
6 volumes in 13 parts 21 cm (8vo)
Type:
Classification
Date:
1797
1830
Notes:
Half-titles
Volumes 1-2, 4-6 consist of 2 parts, volume 3 of 3 parts
Publication dates: volume 1, 1797; volume 2, 1799; volume 3, 1800; volume 4, 1805; volume 5, part 1, 1810; volume 5, part 2, 1830; volume 5, part 2 and volume 6, 1824
Volume 6 edition statement of responsibility reads: " ... olim curante Carolo Ludovico Willdenow, continuata a H.F. Link"
Volume 5, part 2 edition statement of reponsibility reads: " ... olim curante Carolo Ludovico Willdenow, continuata ad muscos a F. Schwaegrichen, prof. Lips." With special title page: Species muscorum frondosorum / editae a D. Friderico Schwaegrichen, hist. nat. prof. Lips. Pars. I. Berolini : Impensis G.C. Nauck, 1830
Signatures and pagination: volume 1, parts 1-2. *⁸)(⁸ A-2H⁸, ²A-3X⁸; pages [I-V] VI-XXXI [XXXII (blank)], [1] 2-495 [496-499] 500-1568 -- volume 2, parts 1-2. pi² A-3E⁸ 3F⁴, ²A-2H⁸ 3I⁶; pages [4 unnumbered] [1] 2-823 [824] [2 unnumbered] [835] 836-1340 -- volume 3, parts 1-3. pi² A-3G⁸, ²A-2Q⁸ 2R1, ³A-3M⁸ 3N⁴; pages [4 unnumbered] [1] 2-847 [848-851] 852-1474 [1475-1477] 1478-2409 [2410 (blank)] -- volume 4, parts 1-2. A-2Q⁸ 2R⁴, ²A-2K⁸; pages [1-5] 6-629 [630-633] 634-1157 [1158 (blank)] -- volume 5, part 1. a-c⁸ d1, A-2L⁸; pages [I-V] VI-XXXXX, 1-542 [543-544 (blank)] -- volume 5, part 2. pi⁸ A-G⁸ H⁴ I²; pages [I-V] VI-XIV, [1] 2-108 [109] 110-122 [123-124 (blank)] -- volume 6, parts 1-2. pi1 a⁸ b², A-K⁸ L⁸(-L8) M², ²pi1 A-G⁸ H⁸(-H8) I⁴; pages [2 unnumbered] [I] II-IX [X] XI-XIX [XX (blank)], ²[I] II-XV [XVI (blank)], 1-160 162 [163] [=162], ²[2 unnumbered] [I] II-VI, 1-128
Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 5427
Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), 512
Soulsby, B.H. A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus, numbers 512
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SCNHRB has three copies; copies 2 and 3 are incomplete
SCNHRB copy 1 has printed description of this edition, with the dating of each volume, pasted to the verso of the half-title of volume 1
SCNHRB copy 1 stamped on title pages or half-titles: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [handwritten accession numbers] 242147
SCNHRB copy 1, volume 5 has a photograph, "Sample of handwriting of Willdenow," on front paste-down. Printed "Partial index to the major genera of fern and fern-allies in the Willdenow Herbarium" on front free endpaper. Pencilled notations throughout
SCNHRB copy 1 bound in brown library buckram, except for volume 3, part 1 in red buckram, volume 5 in black buckram; title in gilt on spine
SCNHRB copy 2 is lacking volume 5, part 2 and volume 6
SCNHRB copy 2, volumes 1-4 has bookplate: Library of A.S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase. With property stamp on title pages: A.S. Hitchcock
SCNHRB copy 2, volume 1 has typescript note on front paste-down. With stamps of bookseller Oswald Weigel, Leipzig on paste-downs. Volume 5 has property stamp of A.P. Wiegmann on title page
SCNHRB copy 2, volume 1 with two unidentified ink signatures on title page; volume 4 with index card with manuscript note laid-inches
SCNHRB copy 2, volume 5 has 60-page Index alphabeticus filicum in Caroli a Linné Specierum plantarum editione quinta cura Willdenovii : enumeratarum adjectis varietatibus nominumque genericorum et trivialium synonymia bound-in at end
SCNHRB copy 2, volume 1 bound in old sprinkled paper boards and leather-backed spine; title in gilt on spine, red edges, pink paste-paper endpapers; volumes 2-4 bound in gray paste-paper boards, manuscript paper spine labels; volume 5 in old red buckram and marbled edges, 'U.S.N.M.' in gilt at foot of spine
SCNHRB copy 3 is lacking volume 5, part 2 and volume 6
SCNHRB copy 3 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Harry Lubrecht
SCNHRB copy 3 half bound in old sheepskin and gray paste-paper boards, title in gilt within red leather spine label
Topic:
Botany  Search this
Plants  Search this
Plantkunde  Search this
Classificatie  Search this
Nomenclatuur  Search this
Call number:
QK91 .S6 1797
QK91.S6 1797X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_239266