• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A system of vegetables, according to their classes genera orders species with their characters and differences : In two volumes. Translated from the thirteenth edition (as published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late Professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present Professor Linneus. ... . By a botanical society, at Lichfield
  • Other titles: Systema vegetabilium. <engl.>
    Supplementum plantarum
  • Contributor: Linné, Carl von [Author]; Linné, Carl von [Other]
  • imprint: Lichfield: printed by John Jackson, for Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden, London, 1782-1785
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (2v.([iv],ii,lvi,[1],424,[22];[5],426-897,[1];[32]p.),plates); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Plant names, Popular Great Britain Early works to 1800 ; Plants Classification Early works to 1800
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "A system of vegetables appeared in parts. No.1 (1782), consisting of 176 pages, is reviewed in The monthly review, 6̱8̱: 433-5 (for May 1783). The complete work, which consisted of four parts, bound in 2 volumes, is reviewed in Vol.7̱2̱: 401-10 (for June 1785) .. The 'botanical society at Lichfield' consisted of three members only: Erasmus Darwin, Brooke (later Sir Brooke) Boothby, and John Jackson." (Henrey)
    English Short Title Catalog, T81060
    Henrey, 981
    Includes: 'An alphabetical catalogue of English and Scotch names of plants' with a separate titlepage dated 1784
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The plates are with descriptive letterpress