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A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CONTRIBUTION TO OUR APPRECIATION OF E. J. C. ESPER'S DIE PFLANZENTHIERE IN ABBILDUNGEN NACH DER NATUR (1788–1830) AND ITS FORTSETZUNGEN (1794–1806)
Author(s) -
Ott Franklyn D.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220835
Subject(s) - collation , relation (database) , certainty , value (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , philosophy , computer science , database , mathematics , epistemology , statistics , linguistics
Summary Through the help of many librarians, the author was successful in locating in European and North American libraries the Lieferung wrappers to Eugen Johann Christoph Esper's Die Pflanzenthiere (1788–1830) as well as to his Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere (1794–1806). These wrappers permit the numerical and signature collation of these two important works. Because of the rarity of these Lieferung wrappers and the poor quality of the paper on which they were printed which, at present, is in various deplorable stages of deterioration, the Nachricht, the Verbesserungen, and the Druckfehler are quoted in their entirety. For each respective Lieferung the complete collation of pagination and the respective plates as issued therewith are given. The value of this information resides in the fact that the plates and their respective descriptions were not issued simultaneously; it is only through the Lieferung wrappers that the relation between the text and the plates can be determined with certainty.