Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray’s, Tournefort’s, and Linnoeus’s Method of Classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea.

Miller, Philip (1755-1755): Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray’s, Tournefort’s, and Linnoeus’s Method of Classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: [VI p.], 100 p. + 150 p. [=256 p.]; vol. 2: 200 p. + 150 p., [4] [=354 p.], London. vol. 1: title-page vignette (p. [III, V]); 150 plates of plant illustrations; vol. 2: 150 plates of plant illustrations, folio,

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Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately engraven after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection. To which are added, their description, and an account of the classes to which they belong, according to Ray’s, Tournefort’s, and Linnoeus’s Method of Classing them. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden at Chelsea.

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Miller The Gardener's Dictionary-Illustrations

Authors:

Creators
Miller, Philip

Publisher:

Rivington

Place of Publication:

London

Edition:

1st ed.

Year:

From	To
1755	1755

Volumes:

2 vols

Format:

folio

Number of pages:

vol. 1: [VI p.], 100 p. + 150 p. [=256 p.]; vol. 2: 200 p. + 150 p., [4] [=354 p.]

illustrations:

vol. 1: title-page vignette (p. [III, V]); 150 plates of plant illustrations; vol. 2: 150 plates of plant illustrations

Language:

English

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Later translated into:

Later translated into
German

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Miller, Philip and Huth, Georg Leonhart (1768-1782): Philipp Millers Gaertners der preiswürdigen Apothekergesellschaft in dem Kräutergarten zu Chelsea, und Mitglied der koenigl. englischen Societät der Wissenschaften, und der Botanischen Academie zu Florenz, Abbildungen der nützlichsten, schönsten und seltensten Pflanzen, welche in seinem Gaertner-Lexicon vorkommen : auf das genaueste, nach den von der Natur genommenen Zeichnungen, in Kupfer gestochen und illuminirt ; auch mit einer ausführlichen Beschreibung und Anzeige der Classen, worunter sie nach Raii, Tourneforts und Linnäi Classification gehören, erläutert. 2 vols, 1st ed., vol. 1: [IV p.], 158 p., [CCLXXXI p.], [2 p.]; vol. 2: 155 p., [CCLII p.], [3 p.], Nuremberg. vol. 1: title-page vignette (p. [I, III]); 150 coloured illustrations on 281 pages; vol. 2: title-page vignette; 150 coloured illustrations on 252 pages,

Prefaces:

vol. 1: The Preface (p. [V-VI]);

Dedications:

vol. 1: [Philip Miller]: To his Excellency John Duke of Bedford (p. [III]);

Other paratexts:

vol. 2: Index plantarum Quae in hoc opere exhibentur (n. p., appendix of 2 pages), The English names of the Plants engraved and Described in this work (n. p., appendix of 2 pages)

Digitized copies:

Biblioteca digital Real Jardín botánico

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https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/idurl/1/13315, https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/idurl/1/13322

URI:

http://encyclopaedias.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/211

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