Historia plantarum species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. In qua agitur primò De Plantis in genere, Earúmque Partibus, Accidentibus & Differentiis; Deinde Genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad Species usque infimas, Notis suis certis & Characteristicis Definita, Methodo Naturae vestigiis insistente disponuntur; Species singulae accurate describuntur, obscura illustrantur, omissa supplentur, superflua resecantur, Synonyma necessaria adjiciuntur; Vires denique & usus recepti compendiò traduntur. Auctore Joanne Raio, E Societate Regiâ, & SS. Individuae Trinitatis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses quondam Socio. ... [electronic resource].

Londini : Typis Mariae Clark: prostant apud Henricum Faithorne Regiae Societatis Typographum, ad Insigne Rosae in Coemeterio D. Pauli, MDCLXXXVI. [1686]-1704.

3v. (v.1: [26],62,59-983,[1] p.; v.2: [8],985-1,350,[2],1,351-1,944,[36]p.; v.3: [2],ix,[1],40,43-666,135,[1],112,225-255,[9] p.) ; fol..

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Titlepages to vol.1 and 3 in red and black.

Vol.2 is dated 1688.

Vol.3 bears the imprint: "Londini: apud Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford".

Vol.1 is of the second state of issue A (see Henrey) with the imprimatur leaf.

Signatures: v.1: pi² A⁶(-A6) a⁶ B-E⁶ F⁶(F5+chi²) G-4O⁶; v.2: A⁴ 4P-5U⁶ 5X⁸ 5Y⁶(5Y1+[dagger]1) 5Z-8A⁶ 8B⁴, a-c⁴ d⁶; v.3: [superscript pi]A⁶ A-4O⁴, a-r⁴, ²A-S⁴, ²a⁴.

With an imprimatur leaf on pi1v of vol. 1: Sept. 15. 1685. In Concilio Regiae Societatis, Londini, ad Scientiam Naturalem promovendam. ... S. Pepys, Pr. R. S.

With a slip cancel at foot of 4O4v of vol. 3.

With a final errata leaf in vol. 3.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

Ht.: 37.5cm; gutter: 2.5cm. V.2, p.1944 is correctly numbered; Ray describes variant with p.1944 misnumbered 1940
Signatures from DFo.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), R394, Keynes 'John Ray a bibliography' 48, 49, 51, Henrey 313
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T93675

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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