[Rarebooks] FS: 1759 natural history introducing Linnaean botany to England

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(NATURAL HISTORY) Stillingfleet, Benjamin (ed. & trans.). MISCELLANEOUS 
TRACTS RELATING TO NATURAL HISTORY, HUSBANDRY, AND PHYSICK. Translated from the 
Latin, with Notes by Benj. Stillingfleet. London: Printed and sold by R. and J. 
Dodsley, S. Baker, and M. Cooper. 1759. First edition. xxx,(2),230pp. Cont. 
speckled calf, hinges & tips scuffed, red morocco spine label, over marbled 
boards (lightly soiled). Some occasional foxing. Bottom blank margin of title with 
a library blind stamp. Verso of title with an ownership signature dated 1784, 
and a deaccession stamp.     $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work contains Linnaeus’ “Oration Concerning Travelling in One’s Own 
Country,” “The Oeconomy of Nature” by Isaac Biberg, “On the Foliation of Trees” 
by Harald Barck, “Of the Use of Curiosity” by Christopher Gedner, “Obstacles 
to the Improvement of Physic” by J. G. Beyerstein, “The Swedish Pan” by 
Nicholas Hasselgren, and “Observations on Grasses” by Stillingfleet. This is one 
of the first published works on Linnean botany in England.

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