Zoonomia ; or, The laws of organic life

By

Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802

Dibner, Bern, , donor.
Darwin, Robert Waring, 1766-1848 , New experiments on the ocular spectra of light and colours.

Type

Book

Publication info

London, J. Johnson, 1794-96

Notes

Vol. 2 contains parts II and III: "A catalogue of diseases distributed into natural classes according to their proximate causes, with their subsequent orders, genera, and species, and with their methods of cure" (p. [iii]-xi and [1]-653); "The articles of the materia medica, with an account of the operation of medicines" (p. [655]-772)

"Sect. XL. On the ocular spectra of light and colours, by Dr. R. W. Darwin ... from the Philosophical transactions, vol. LXXVI [1786] p. 313": v. 1, p. 534-566.

"Additions": v. 1, p. [566]-575; v. 2, p. [626]-640.

"Directions to the binder," "Errata," and "Advertisement [announcement of v. 2]": v. 1, p. [587-588]

Bound in original full speckled calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 20th c. morocco with gilt title to spine ; speckled edges ; original endpapers preserved ; bookplate with motto "Fide et Taciturnitate" (Marcus Inish[?]) inside front cover.

Subjects

Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science , Early works to 1800 , Evolution , History , Medicine , pathology , physiology , Science

Call Number

QP29 .D22 1794

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39956
OCLC: 14865029