Description
Item Description:Imprint varies in volume 2: first publisher changes to Apud bibliopolas Treuttel et Würtz.
"The number of genera treated is 2,300, with circa 20,000 species. Many of the new taxa are based on specimens in the Jussieu herbarium at P[aris]" --Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic literature (2nd edition), number 7732
A supplemental index was issued in 1814 by A.G.G. Lichtenstein under the title: Index alphabeticus generum botanicorum quotquot a Willdenovio in Speciebus plantarum et a Persoonio in Synopsi plantarum recensentur
"Parisiis, ex typographia J.-L. Scherff" --Colophon
Volume 1: [2], 546 pages; volume 2: [4], 657, [3] pages.
Signatures: vol. 1: pi⁸ (-pi8) A-Ll⁸ ; vol. 2: pi² A-Ss⁸.
Text in double columns.
Errors in paging: page 356 in volume 1 is misnumbered as 456; page 378 in volume 2 is misnumbered as 348.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Errata: volume 2, pages [1-2] at end.
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Has inscription in both volumes: U.S. Ex. Exp.
Physical Description:2 volumes ; 15 cm (8vo)
Place of Publication:France -- Paris.
Germany -- Tübingen.