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THEOPHRASTUS. De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel... Amsterdam: apud Henricum Laurentium [colophon: typis Judoci Broerssen], 1644. Folio, 364 x 215 mm., contemporary calf, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; few minor marginal stains, generally crisp. Text in Greek and Latin; engraved title and 675 woodcuts in text. Hunt 240; Nissen BBI 1947nc.
Edited by Joannes Bodaeus à 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). This edition also includes a number of South African species are also depicted and discussed.
Provenance: William Coward, bookplate -- Coward College Library, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's, 3-4 April, 1950, lot 300) -- Arpad Plesch, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 15 March 1976, lot 739) -- Robert de Belder.
Edited by Joannes Bodaeus à 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). This edition also includes a number of South African species are also depicted and discussed.
Provenance: William Coward, bookplate -- Coward College Library, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's, 3-4 April, 1950, lot 300) -- Arpad Plesch, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 15 March 1976, lot 739) -- Robert de Belder.