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THEOPHRASTUS. (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.). De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel. Amsterdam: Judoci Broerseen, 1644.
2o (355 x 218 mm). Text printed in Greek and Latin, engraved title and approximately 602 botanical woodcuts and approximately 45 woodcut initials in text. (Some leaves with marginal dampstain, 2Q6 with tear crossing 38 lines of text with no loss, 5C4 with short marginal tear just touching one letter, a few leaves with light spotting.) Later calf gilt (rebacked, original spine laid down, upper cover with repair, rubbed, stained). Provenance: Mr. Falconez (inscription in ink on verso of flyleaf); C.E. Rappaport Libri Rari Roma (bookseller's ticket on verso of flyleaf); early ownership inscription on title crossed out.
Edited by Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel, this edition is one of the best critical editions of Theophrastus. "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work" (H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt). Cleveland Collections 204, HA Copy 2 this copy; Hunt 240.
2o (355 x 218 mm). Text printed in Greek and Latin, engraved title and approximately 602 botanical woodcuts and approximately 45 woodcut initials in text. (Some leaves with marginal dampstain, 2Q6 with tear crossing 38 lines of text with no loss, 5C4 with short marginal tear just touching one letter, a few leaves with light spotting.) Later calf gilt (rebacked, original spine laid down, upper cover with repair, rubbed, stained). Provenance: Mr. Falconez (inscription in ink on verso of flyleaf); C.E. Rappaport Libri Rari Roma (bookseller's ticket on verso of flyleaf); early ownership inscription on title crossed out.
Edited by Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel, this edition is one of the best critical editions of Theophrastus. "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work" (H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt). Cleveland Collections 204, HA Copy 2 this copy; Hunt 240.