Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; made in a journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with A catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues
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Type of record: Book
Title: Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; made in a journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with A catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues
Other titles: Catalogus Stirpium in Exteris Regionibus a nobis Observatarum
Classmark: BC Trv/RAY
Creator(s): Ray, John (1627-1705)
Additional creator(s): Willughby, Francis (1635-1676) (Other)
Related people: Willughby, Francis
Publisher: printed for John Martyn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1673
Language: English
Size and medium: [16], 499, [1]; [8], 115, [1] p.; 4 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280733
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001247399705181
Description
First edition.
The "Catalogue of plants" is in Latin and has special title-page, fresh alphabet and pagination, although the signatures are continuous: Catalogus stirpium in Exteris regionibus a nobis observatarum...; Londini, typis Andreae Clark, impensi J. Martyn ... 1673 (OCLC).
Reissued in 1738 as vol.1 of a two-volume set of "Mr. Ray's travels, with title: "Travels through the Low-Countries...[etc]".
Pp.466-99 comprise "A relation of a voyage made through a great part of Spain by Francis Willughby...collected out of his notes".
Illustrations: plates depict plan of a canal lock, portrait of Dominicus Contrareno.
Indexed in: Wing(2) R399.
Indexed in: Keynes 21.
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