Title
Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick : to which is added, The calendar of flora
Title Variants
Alternative:
Calendar of flora
Alternative:
Husbandry & physick
Alternative:
Tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick
Uniform: Amoenitates academicae
By
Stillingfleet, Benjamin, 1702-1771
Linné, Carl von, 1741-1783
Müller, Tobias, fl 1765-1790
, engraver
Price, R.,
, ill
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Printed: and sold by R. and J. Dodsley ... ; S. Baker ... ; and T. Payne, 1762
Edition
The second edition, corrected and augmented with additional notes throughout, particularly on some of the English grasses, which are illustrated by copper plates.
Notes
Translator's preface: "The following pieces were selected from many others published by several ingenious members of .. the university of Upsal in Sweden, under the presidence of Linnaeus".
The first part is comprised of selections from Amoenitates academicae (by Linnaeus and his colleagues) edited and translated by Stillingfleet.
Plates signed either R. Price or J. Miller.
Woodcut title vignette, head-pieces.
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-2B⁸ 2C⁴.
Includes indexes to The calendar of flora.
Contents: An oration concerning the necessity of travelling in one's own countrey / by Dr. Linnaeus -- The œconomy of nature / by Isaac J. Biberg -- On the foliation of trees / by Harald Barck -- Of the use of curiosity / by Christopher Gedner -- Obstacles to the improvement of physic / by Joh. Georg. Beyerstein -- The calendar of flora, Swedish and English / [by Alexand. Mal. Berger, Benjamin Stillingfleet, and Theophrastus] -- The Swedish Pan / by Nicholas Hasselgren -- Observations on grasses / [by Benjamin Stillingfleet].
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., | p. 433
Soulsby, B.H. Linnaeus, | 1320
Subjects
Agriculture
,
Early works to 1800
,
Medicine
,
Natural history
Call Number
QH9 .S713 1762
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.139197
OCLC:
14314514
Soulsby:
1320
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51412958
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