STILLINGFLEET, Benjamin. Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick. To which is added the Calendar of Flora. The second edition, corrected and augmented with additional notes throughout, particularly on some of the English grasses, which are illustrated by copper plates. Printed: and sold by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. 1762
[32], 391, [1]p, 11 engr. plates. 8vo. A little foxing & light browning. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, raised bands, red morocco label; v. sl. insect damage to upper board. Early ownership name of M.J. O'Kelly & two sheets of manuscript quotations from Pennant's 'Zoology' & Pulteney's 'Life of Linneaus' tipped in, together with hand-written index to plates. Handsome black & gilt armorial bookplate of the O'Kelly family, an early bookseller's catalogue description of Stillingfleet's Select Works, & the more recent bookplate of Joseph E. Young. Very attractive copy.
¶ESTC T81085. First published in 1759. Stillingfleet, the translator and editor notes in his Preface that 'the following pieces were selected from many others published by several ingenious members of... the University of Upsal in Sweden, under the Presidence of Linnĉus'.