Book ID: 93069
Linnaeus, C.
Musa Cliffortiana. Clifford's Banana plant. Reprint and translation of the original edition Leiden 1736. Translated into English by Stephen Freer, with an Introduction by Staffan Müller-Wille. 2007. (Regnum Vegetabile, 148). 1 col. frontispiece. 264 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. (ISBN 978-3-906166-63-6)
Contents: Preface ( by Tod F. Stuessy ) / Introduction (by Staffan Müller-Wille ) / Chronology / Translators preface ( by Stephen Freer ) / About this edition /Signs, symbols and conventions / Reprint and translation of Musa Cliffortiana / Dedication and preface / Laudatory poem by Johannes / IV. Species / The Species / V. Attributa / Its Attributes / VI. Usus / Its Uses /VII. Litteraria / Literary Matters / Notes on Musa Cliffortiana /Linnaeus's handwritten annotations in one of his personalcopies in the Linnean Society of London / Notes on Linnaeuss handwritten annotations on MusaCliffortiana / Bibliography of Linnaeus's sources / Appendix 1. Reprint and translation of Linnaeus's Methodus / Appendix 11. Additional laudatory poemby Johann Heinrich Jungius.