Details
SPIGELIUS, ADRIANUS. Isagoges in rem herbarium libri duo. Padua: Paul Megeitto, 1606. 4to, 201 x 141 mm., contemporary vellum, a bit bowed and soiled; stain on upper margin of title and following leaf. Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon. FIRST EDITION. Hunt 184; Pritzel 8827.
"First edition of the first book to give detailed instructions for the forming of a collection of dried plants. Spieghel was professor of anatomy and surgery at the Università di Padova" (Hunt).
Provenance: Early shelfmarks on endpapers -- John Evelyn, bookplate (sale, Christie's London, 16 March, 1978, lot 1402).
"First edition of the first book to give detailed instructions for the forming of a collection of dried plants. Spieghel was professor of anatomy and surgery at the Università di Padova" (Hunt).
Provenance: Early shelfmarks on endpapers -- John Evelyn, bookplate (sale, Christie's London, 16 March, 1978, lot 1402).