Hortus medicus Edinburgensis: or, a catalogue of the plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh. Containing their most proper Latin and English names ; with an English alphabetical index / by James Sutherland, intendant of the said garden.

  • Sutherland, James, 1639?-1719.
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1683
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Hortus medicus Edinburgensis: or, a catalogue of the plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh. Containing their most proper Latin and English names ; with an English alphabetical index / by James Sutherland, intendant of the said garden. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Edinburgh : printed by the heir of A. Anderson, and are to be sold by Mr. H. Ferguson and the author, 1683.

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7 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves, 367, 1, pages, 30 pages, [31?] leaves ; (8vo)

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First publication in Scotland of a book of formal botanical description, as distinct from John Reid's gardening book of the same place and year
First ed.; the errata on the last page without the paste-over errata of 31 lines found in some copies
Signatures: A-Ee⁸, Ee 8 probably blank; fol. Q2 a cancel, correcting omission of 5 lines on p. 228 in descriptions of knobbed wild mint and Hungarian wild mint
Copy 1 Note: Sigs. A1 and Ee8 (both blank?) wanting.

References note

Henrey, B., Brit. botanical & horticultural lit. before 1800 #360, also v. I, p. 152-154
Wing S6206
Mansell 577:332
Hunt 368
Pritzel 9056
Aldis 2433
Henrey 360
ESTC R30155
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S6206

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