This handwritten table of contents, with the subhead “ad Systema Sexuale Cl. Linnaei accommodata,” demonstrates that an owner wanted to update his book's utility by adding binomial names. Hortus Elthamensis was published in 1732, around the time when Linnaeus was starting to publish on botany.
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