Details - Ioannis Antonii Scopoli ... Flora Carniolica : exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano

Ioannis Antonii Scopoli ... Flora Carniolica

Title

Ioannis Antonii Scopoli ... Flora Carniolica : exhibens plantas Carnioliae indigenas et distributas in classes, genera, species, varietates, ordine Linnaeano

Title Variants

Alternative: Flora Carniolica

By

Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio, 1723-1788 , author

Krauss, Johann Paul, 1701-1776 , publisher
Rein, Joseph Friedrich, 1720-1785 , engraver

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[Vienna], Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krauss, bibliopolae Vindobonensis, 1772

Edition

Editio secunda aucta et reformata.

Notes

Engraved title vignettes, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

"This edition has binary names and is written in the Linnaean tradition in all other respects as well"--Stafleu & Cowan/TL-2.

Also issued with volume 1 imprint date 1771 (Stafleu & Cowan 11546a, designating this, the more common issue, as 11546b).

Signatures: volume 1. a⁸(-a8; a1+1[=a8?]) b-d⁸ e⁴, A-2E⁸ [$5 (-e4) signed]; 260 leaves, pages [72 unnumbered] [1-3] 4-448 + plates 1-21 22* 22-32 -- volume 2. pi1 A-2I⁸ [$5 signed]; 257 leaves, pages [2 unnumbered] [1-3] 4-496 [16 unnumbered] + plates 33-65.

Sixteen of the 66 plates (i.e. roughly a quarter) are signed "Rein sc. A.V." (Augustae Vindelicorum, i.e. Augsburg); cut lines and vestigial lettering (A-R) indicate that the engravings were printed for the most part 4-up, in general with Rein's signature in one engraving per plate. The plates are captioned with species numbers and names.

Addenda and errata: leaves 2I7r-8v.

Stafleu, F.A. Taxonomic literature (2nd ed.), | 11546

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), | 8553