D. Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuters Vorläufige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen und Beobachtungen

by: Kölreuter, Joseph Gottlieb, 1733-1806; Burndy Library, donor. DSI; Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung, publisher

Publication date: 1761

Topics: Plants, Sex in, Pollination

Publisher: Leipzig : In der Gleditschischen Handlung

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: German

Volume: v 2-4

Fortsetzung, Zweyte Fortsetzung, and Dritte Fortsetzung have separate title pages dated 1763, 1764, and 1766 respectively

Title vignette (the winged horse Pegasus)

Head- and tail-pieces; Initials

Includes bibliographical references

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Elecresource

SCDIRB copy is bound in 2 v. (v. 1, 39088005613518; v. 2-4, 39088005613526), which are housed together in 1 box

SCDIRB copy of v. 1 has the title leaf repaired with a reinforcing sheet of paper mounted on the verso

SCDIRB copy of v. 3 is imperfect: p. 17-32 (leaves signed B1-B8) are wanting

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science no. 28

SCDIRB copy has v. 1 bound in contemporary gray paper boards; v. 2-4 is bound in contemporary green paper boards. Both volumes have handwritten spine labels with the author's name. The volumes are housed together in a later green cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered spine