Ioannis Raii Societatis Regiae Socii Historiae 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 necesaria adjiciuntur; Vires denique & Usus recepti compendio traduntur. Acces Serunt Lexicon Botanicum et Nomenclator Botanicus.Totum opus in duobus Tomis cum Indicibus Necessariis Nominum, Morborum, & Remediorum. 3 volumes. London 1693 -1704. (Impensis Samuelis Smith & Benjamini Walford). XIL, 2999 p. Folio. Embossed leather binding.

Stafleu, TL2, 8701.

This is the second imprint of the first edition, which differs from the first imrpint by having a portrait of Ray which is not present in the first imprint. 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.

Good copy. No foxing.