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Paperback / softback. New.

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The Bell in St Paul's Churchyard: John Martyn, 1673. Illustrated with three engraved folding plates, an engraved portrait, one engraving within the text, small thick octavo, pp xiii, (i), 499, (i), title to the Catalogus Stirpium, v, (i), 115, with the errata leaf, lacking the title page which is supplied in an old-style photo copy, the plates are a little browned and creased and one is splitting along the fold, some age-toning and signs of use throughout, signs of damp damage to the lower margins throughout, with some pages frayed and flaking, (very slight loss of text to about fifteen pages), bound in a recent very simple full calf, no title to the spine. A good working copy of a very scarce title. [John Ray FRS, 1627 - 1705, was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were… Read More

London: printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1673.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [viii]ff., 499pp.; [iv]ff., 115pp. A8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8, Kk2, Aaa8-Ggg8, Hhh6. First edition. Two parts in one volume. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. With three folding plates, a portrait and a woodcut diagram in the text. Wing R399; ESTC R5715.