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Creator:
La Croix, Demetrius de
Title(s):
Connubia florum latino carmine demonstrata / auctore D. de La Croix, M.D. Notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, baronettus.
Published/Created:
Bathoniae : Ex. Typographia S. Hazard, MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
[6], 138, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QK827 .L33 1791
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Latin poem on the sex of plants.
Demetrius De La Croix is the pseudonym of Demetrius Macenroe.
Engraved frontispiece, printed in sepia ink, depicts passion flowers and the Scythian Lamb. Engraved by William Hibbart.
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 474
English short title catalogue, T81819
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in tree calf, with gilt tooled spine. Bookplate: Kinnaird. Inscribed: E Dono. I. Crooke.
Subject Terms:
Botany -- Miscellanea -- Early works to 1800.
Botany -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Crooke, I. -- Pres. insc.
Engraving -- Specimen -- 1791.
Fertilization of plants -- Early works to 1800.
Hazard, S. -- Publisher.
Kinnaird -- Bookplate.
Contributors:
Clayton, Richard, Sir, -1828.
Hibbart, William, 1725-1808, engraver.
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