Ioannis Raii Societatis Regiae Socii Histori Plantarum Generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque multas noviter inventas & descriptas cmplectens. De Plantis in genere, Earumque Partibus, Accidentibus & Differentiis, Deinde Genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad species usque infimas, Notis suis certis Characteristicis Definita, Methodo Naturae vestigiis insistente disponuntur; Species...

... singulae accurate describuntur, obscura Illustrantur, omissa supplementur, suprflua resecantur, Synonyma necessaria adjiciuntur; Vires denique & Usus recepti compendio traduntur. Acces Serunt Lexicon Botanicum et Nomenclator Botanicus.Totum opus in duobus Tomis com Indicibus Necessariis Nominum, Morborum, & Remediorum. 3 volumes. London 1686 -1704. (Impensis Samuelis Smith & Benjamini Walford). XIL, 2999 p. Folio. Bound in leather, with rich gold tooling on spine.

Stafleu, TL2, 8701.

This is the first edition. Rays greatest work was the most important botanical text of the seventeenth century, and the foundation of modern botany.Some 18.000 plants have been dealt with. The bindings are partly strongly rubbed and there is some foxing.