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New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus : comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification : a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants : a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the se

[3], [10], [22], [11], [2] leaves, [105] leaves of plates : 59 cm. (fol.) · Imprint, publication date, and title taken from 1807 title page bound in towards end of volume · The work was published in parts between 1799 and 1807 · Most leaves of plates dated 1799-1807, with some leaves dated 1810, despite imprint date of 1807 · Half titles, without imprint, preceding the t.p.: [1] A British trophy in honour of Linnaeus. [2] A new illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus · Half-title page A British trophy in honour of Linnaeus: Tomkins ser. [and] Cooper sculp.; A new illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus: Tomkins Script. [and] Vincent Sculpt · No two copies are exactly alike as Thornton made up copies using different combinations of plates; "The work was advertised in 1797, and seems to have been issued in parts at twenty-five shillings each between 1799 and 1807. In its best state it is a very splendid work, .. but its bibliography is very difficult, hardly two copies being alike"--volume 56, Dictionary of National Biography, under Thornton, Robert John · "Thornton bankrupted himself on this project, a poetic and artistic celebration of the sexual system of plant reprodu

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