> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 300](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120431) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1057-1) LSID 1057-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726087) QID Q726087 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bradley, Richard (1688-1732), English botanist, professor of botany at Cambridge. **Abbreviated name**: *Bradley* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bradley*\] #### Herbarium and types Specimens in Sloane herbarium through Petiver. Some manuscripts in [[Collection CGE|CGE]]. *Ref*.: Dandy, The Sloane herbarium 95. 1958. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 238; BB p. 42; BM 1: 220, 6: 119; DNB 6: 172; Henrey 482-511(!); Jackson p. 67, 125; Kew 1: 336-337; Langman p. 152; LS 3735a; Moebius p. 341, 351, 404; NI 221; PR 1075-1081, PR (ed. 1) 1216-1223. - Pulteney, Sketches 2: 129-133. 1790. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 173 \[index\]. 1800. - Sprengel, Gesch. Bot. 2: 165-166, 229. 1818. - Dict. Sci. Med. Biogr. Méd. 2: 504, 506. 1820. - Smith, J. E., Correspondence 2: 387. 1832. - Thomas, Bull. brit. Soc. Hist. Sci. 1: 176-178. 1952. - Rowley, *in* Introduction to R. Bradley, Coll. writings succulent plants xxi-xxii. 1964. - Butterfield, J. Cactus Succ. Soc. Amer. 40(2): 53-56. 1968. - Egerton, J. Hist. Biol. 2(2): 391-410. 1969. - Egerton, Notes Rec. Roy. Soc. London 25(1): 59-77. 1970. - Egerton, Med. Hist. 14(1): 53-62. 1970. - Rowley, *in* Herre, The genera of Mesembryanthemaceae 40. 1971. - Tjaden, Bull. Afr. Succ. Pl. Soc. 8(4): 132-135. 1972, 8(5): 182-185. 1973, 8(6): 224-227. 1974, 9(1): 5-12. 1974, 9(2): 57-60. 1974, 9(5): 143-147. 1974, 9(6): 168-169. 1975, 10(1): 21-22. 51-53, 10(3): 76-77. 1975, 10(4): 105-106. 1975. - Ronan, DSB 2: 390. 1974 (bibl.) #### Eponymy *Braddleya* \[sic\] Vellozo (1825); *Bradleja* \[sic\] Banks ex J. Gaertner (1790); *Bradleya* O. Kuntze (1891, *orth. var.*) ### Publications ##### n.699. The history of succulent plants **Title** *The history of succulent plants* containing the Aloes, Ficoid's (or Fig-Marygolds) Torch-Thistles, Melon-Thistles, and such others as are not capable of an Hortus-siccus. Engrav ed, from the originals, on copper plates. With their descriptions, and manner of culture. London (1-3: author, 4-5: William Mears) 1716-1727, 5 Decades. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. succ. pl.* **Notes** |Decade |pages |*plates* |date| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |\[ii-viii\], 1-11, \[12, err.\] |1-10 |1716| |2 |\[i-iv\], 1-11, \[12\] |11-20 |1717| |3 |\[ii-iv\], 1-12 \[1, dir.\] |21-30 |1725| |4 |\[ii-iv\], 1-18 \[i, dir.\] |31-40 |1727| |5 |\[ii-iv\], 7-18 \[1, dir.\] |41-50 |1727| *Copy*: NY. – Alternative t.p. for each decade: "*Historia plantarum succulentarum*: complectens hasce insequentes plantas,... cultura." An advertising pamphlet, *Treatise of succulent plants*, London 1710, p. \[1-6\], is reproduced in the 1964 facsimile edition. The 49 plates are numbered 1-25, 26/27, 28-50; in some copies they are hand coloured. – Copies vary, see Henrey 490-491. *Reissued* 1734, London (W. Mears), new gen. t.p., rest same. *Second* edition, corrected, London (J. Hodges) 1739. Qu. – Unchanged reprint with the omission of the five sets of double title pages accompanying the five decades and the provisions of a single new t.p. in English. \[80\] p., 50 plates on 49 lvs. Qu. *Copy*: HU, p. \[i\]-vi, 1-11, *pl. 1-10*, \[i-ii\], 1-11, *pl. 11-20*; \[i-ii\], 1-12, *pl. 21-30*, \[1, dir. bin.\], \[i-ii\], 1-18, *pl. 31-40*, \[1, dir. bin.\]; \[i-ii\], 7-18, *pl. 41-50*, \[1, dir. bin.\]. *Facsimile ed*.: London (Gregg Press) 1964, with intr. by G. D. Rowley, p. \[i\]-xiv, advertising pamphlet 1710, followed by repr. of the History and the other writings. *Ref*.: BM 1: 220; DU 49; GF p. 51; Jackson p. 125; Langman p. 153; NI 221; PR 1075. - Rowley, Cactus and Succ. J. Great Britain 16: 30-31, 54-55, 78-81. 1954; see also Taxon 1: 134. 1952. - Butterfield, J. Cactus Soc. Amer. 40(2): 53-56. 1968.