> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 636](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355723) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6738-1) LSID 6738-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182444) QID Q3182444 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mueller, Johann Sebastian (1715-1780), German botanical artist who settled in London (1744) and afterwards called himself John Miller. **Abbreviated name**: *J. S. Muell.* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.S.Muell.*\] #### Collection Mueller was a draughtsman and engraver and is not known to have made herbarium specimens. Some of his drawings are at BM; other at Windsor Castle. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 525; BB p. 215 (Miller, J.); Blunt p. 150, 160, 203; BM 3: 1370, 7: 877; Desmond p. 438; DNB 37: 412; Dryander 2: 212, 3: 22, 27, 5: 63; DU 206-207; GF p. 68; Henrey 1: 109, 111, 113, 2: 730 \[index\], 3: 94-95; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Mill., J."); Jackson p. 16, 32, 111, 112, 584; Kew 4: 81; NI 1371-1376; Plesch p. 336-337; PR 6523-6525 (ed. 1: 7283-7285); SO 667, 673, 1218c, 2507, add. 2508a, 3129; TL-1/188, 848, 849a, 897-898; TL-2/938, 4450; Zander ed. 10, p. 693, ed. 11, p. 790. - Anon., J. Bot. 19: 64. 1881. - Bräuning-Oktavio, H., Philobiblon 5: 49-51. 1932 (on the publisher J. H. Merck). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 54: 84-87. 1916, 57: 353. 1919 (on *Ill*. *Syst. sex. gen. pl.*). - Fries, Th. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(3): 165, 262, 269. 1909. - Fussell, G. F., More old English farming books 121. 1948. - Hemsley, J. B., Gard. Chron. 1887(1): 451, 1890(1): 255. - Hulth, J. M. & A. H. Uggla, Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 112, 138, 140. 1943. - Lisney, A. A., Bibl. Brit. Lepidopt. 176-179. 1960 (n.v.). - Meusel, J. G., Lex. teut. Schriftst. 9: 418. 1809. - Sprague, T. A., J. Bot. 74: 208-209. 1936 (on *Icones novae*). - Woodward, B. B., *in* G. Murray, Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 42-43. 1904 (drawings). - Zittel, K. A. v., Hist. geol. palaeontol. 130, 392, 393, 405, 537. 1901. ### Publications ##### n.6482. Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei **Title** *Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei*. London \[1770-\] 1777. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *lll*. *syst. sex. Linnaei*. **Notes** *Publ*.: in 20 parts, 1770-1777. We saw only the copy at NY which has an engraved title-page with the title "Systema sexuale generum plantarum" with 108 plates (all but 50th *pl*. in handcol. & uncol. versions; the uncol. with details indicated). – The plates (engraved, all by Müller himself) bear dates ranging from 1770-1777. This folio, which bears as a subtitle *An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus* must not be confused with the *octavo* described below. Seven additional plates were published in 1780: These plates are also referred to as *Icones novae*, or *Icones plantarum* (in W, fide PR). See Henrey no. 1153 (108 pl.) for many details. The entire work was reissued in London in 1794 (n.v.; Henrey 1154). A Latin/German edition was published in 1792, another in 1804 (see below). ##### n.6483. An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus **Title** *An illustration of the sexual system of Linnaeus*... London (published as the Act directs, & sold at the authors house in Dorset Court...) 1779-1789, 2 vols. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. sex. syst. Linnaeus*. **Notes** *1*: 1779, frontisp., engr. t.p., p. 1-8, i-xvi, *pl. i, 1-106* with text p. 1-106 (*101* and *104* wanting). *2*: 1789, engr. t.p., p. \[i-ii\], *pl. 1-86* (no. *20* wanting) with p. 1-86, \[1, err.\]. "*An illustration of the termini botanici of Linnaeus*..." Published as the Act directs, & sold at the authors house no. 10, Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. 1789. *Copies*: BR, FI, MO, NY; IDC 6087. – The plates are coloured copper engr. by the author. A 1794 re-issue has not been seen by us. For a Latin edition of vol. 1 see below, *Ill*. *syst. sex. Linnaeani*. – See Henrey 1155 and 1156. ##### n.6484. Icones novae **Title** \[*Icones novae*\] Londini 1780. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. nov.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1780, 1 If.,*7 pl*. (copp.; handcol. auct.), n.v. – See above sub *Ill. syst. sex. Linn*. to which these plates were an addition. – *Copies*: BM, K, Lindley Library (fide GF). See Henrey 1153. *Ref*.: Sprague, T. A., J. Bot. 74: 208-209. 1936. ##### n.6485. Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaeani **Title** Ioannis Milleri *Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaeani*. Quam e textu anglico editionis minoris translatam nunc emendatum additamentis variis propriis praecipue terminorum botanicorum notioni inservientibus atque indicibus necessariis locupletatam accuravit D. Fridericus Guilielmus Weiss... Francofurti ad Moenum \[Frankfurt a.M.\] (apud Varrentrapp et Wenner; 1789. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill*. *syst. sex. Linnaeani*. **Notes** *Translator and annotator*: Friedrich Wilhelm Weiss (1744-?). *Publ*.: 1789 (p. xxiv: Jun 1789), p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-495, chart, engr. t.p. \[for vol. 2\] *pl. A, 1-104* (handcol. copper engr.). *Copies*: FI, L, M, MO, NY, USDA. ##### n.6486. Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei **Title** Ioannes Miller, *Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaei*... denuo edita, revisa ac translatione germanica locupletata per Mauritium Balthasarem Borckhausen adiectis tabulis cviii. Ad originale Millerianum aeri incisis et coloratis. Francofurti ad Moenum \[Frankfurt a.M.\] (apud Varrentrapp et Wenner) 1804. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. syst. sex. Linnaei*. **Notes** *Editor* and author of notes: Moriz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760-1806). *Orig*.: 1792, n.v., copy at FI-Bibl. naz. *Reissue*: 1804, p. \[i-viii\], *pl. 1*, \[ix-x\],*pl. 2*, \[xi-xii\], *pl. 3, 4*, \[xiii-xvi\], *pl. 1-104. Copy*: NY.