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BAUHIN, GASPARD. theatri botanici...sive index in Theophrasti Dioscorides Plinii et botanicorum qui a seculo scripserunt. Basel: Ludovicus Rex 1623.
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BAUHIN, GASPARD. theatri botanici...sive index in Theophrasti Dioscorides Plinii et botanicorum qui a seculo scripserunt. Basel: Ludovicus Rex 1623.
4to, 241 x 181mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/4in.), seventeenth-century vellum boards, yapp outer board edges, edges stained blue, lacks ties, head of spine slightly damaged by removal of a label, text a little browned, modern brown quarter morocco box.
FIRST EDITION.
PMM 121; Norman 139; Pritzel 509; Stafleu TL2 367.
"Bauhin's Pinax began the system of 'natural' plant classification based upon general morphology, and established the first scientific system of nomenclature."--Norman.
Provenance: Ferdinand Grindel, inscription on title dated 1650.
4to, 241 x 181mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/4in.), seventeenth-century vellum boards, yapp outer board edges, edges stained blue, lacks ties, head of spine slightly damaged by removal of a label, text a little browned, modern brown quarter morocco box.
FIRST EDITION.
PMM 121; Norman 139; Pritzel 509; Stafleu TL2 367.
"Bauhin's Pinax began the system of 'natural' plant classification based upon general morphology, and established the first scientific system of nomenclature."--Norman.
Provenance: Ferdinand Grindel, inscription on title dated 1650.