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On the study and value of Chinese botanical works : with notes on the history of plants and geographical botany from Chinese sources   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Bretschneider, E., 1833-1901, author
Wu, Qijun, 1789-1847. Zhi wu ming shi tu kao
Kunike, Hugo, 1887- former owner. DSI
Rozario, Marcal & Company, printer
Title
On the study and value of Chinese botanical works : with notes on the history of plants and geographical botany from Chinese sources
Description
The preface is dated on page [3] (1st group): Peking, December 17th, 1870
Originally published in several successive issues of volume 3 (1870-1871) of The Chinese recorder and missionary journal
According to Fa-ti Fan, in British naturalists in Qing China (2009; page 213), the eight leaves of plates were reproduced from Qijun Wu's Zhi wu ming shi tu kao
The nomenclature is transcribed in "Kuan-hua" or Mandarin dialect, adopting the mode of spelling in Mr. Wade's Peking syllabary (preface, page [3], 1st group)
Text in double columns
Errata on page 51
The plates are printed on four double leaves of rice paper, folded at the fore-edge, with brief captions in Chinese
"List of Chinese works, quoted in the foregoing notes": pages 48-50
Antiquariat Botanicum;
SCNHRB copy 39088018713313 is inscribed in ink on the title page: Ex libris Dr. Hugo Kunike. There is also a partially legible, handwritten inscription in German by the author on the front cover to an unidentified recipient (part of the cover bearing the inscription has been torn away and repaired)
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has the original printed beige limp paper cover, with a wrapper made from a contemporary sheet of gray paper; housed in an archival envelope for preservation

Subjects: Botany; Plants, Cultivated; Materia medica, Vegetable
Language English
Publication date 1871
publication_date QS:P577,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: biodiversity
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onstudyvaluechi00bret
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Internet Archive identifier: onstudyvaluechi00bret
https://archive.org/download/onstudyvaluechi00bret/onstudyvaluechi00bret.pdf

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