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HERNANDEZ, Francisco (1514-1587). Nova Plantarum, Animalium et Mineralium Mexicanorum Historia, edited by Nardo Antonio de Recchi, with notes by Giovanni Terrentio, Johannes Faber, Fabio Colonna and Federico Cesi. Rome: V. Mascardi for B. Deversini and Z. Masotti, 1651.
2° (328 x 220mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved additional title, approximately 800 woodcut illustrations, one quarter-page engraving of four staves of music on p. 717. (Light marginal worming, some browning or spotting, generally light but heavier to about 30 leaves.) 18th-century armorial vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: armorial label on spine (unidentified) -- Simon Paulli (inscription on title) -- Johann Conrad Wolfen (signature on title) -- unidentified library stamp (at foot of title, with ms note on front free endpaper noting that the book is a duplicate).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST NATURAL HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD, a work which 'even today... holds its place as a book of highest authority ... with its brilliant appended treatises, it was here at least that Hernandez' work received the recognition that it deserved. Though it was only a small part of all that he had written on the subject' (Hunt). The work was written during Hernandez' stay in Mexico between 1570-1577, and first published there in Spanish in 1615. This Latin translation first appeared in 1628 but was not distributed. The sheets with new preliminaries were used for re-issues of 1648, 1649 and 1651 - all listed under the title Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus. This copy agrees with the New York Library copy in containing both gathering Qq4 (with the dedication to Barberini), and 2Qq4 (the the alternative dedication to 'amice lector'), but containing only the alternative dedication to Cesi (2Bbbb3) and the substitute dedication to de Mendoza (2Gggg2). This copy does not contain a two-leaf index, which is occasionally found at the end of part I but was clearly designed to be discarded in favour of the more elaborate index that is present. Hunt 247; Nissen BBI 861 & ZBI 1908a; Palau 113538; Sabin 31516.
2° (328 x 220mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved additional title, approximately 800 woodcut illustrations, one quarter-page engraving of four staves of music on p. 717. (Light marginal worming, some browning or spotting, generally light but heavier to about 30 leaves.) 18th-century armorial vellum (lightly soiled). Provenance: armorial label on spine (unidentified) -- Simon Paulli (inscription on title) -- Johann Conrad Wolfen (signature on title) -- unidentified library stamp (at foot of title, with ms note on front free endpaper noting that the book is a duplicate).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST NATURAL HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD, a work which 'even today... holds its place as a book of highest authority ... with its brilliant appended treatises, it was here at least that Hernandez' work received the recognition that it deserved. Though it was only a small part of all that he had written on the subject' (Hunt). The work was written during Hernandez' stay in Mexico between 1570-1577, and first published there in Spanish in 1615. This Latin translation first appeared in 1628 but was not distributed. The sheets with new preliminaries were used for re-issues of 1648, 1649 and 1651 - all listed under the title Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus. This copy agrees with the New York Library copy in containing both gathering Qq4 (with the dedication to Barberini), and 2Qq4 (the the alternative dedication to 'amice lector'), but containing only the alternative dedication to Cesi (2Bbbb3) and the substitute dedication to de Mendoza (2Gggg2). This copy does not contain a two-leaf index, which is occasionally found at the end of part I but was clearly designed to be discarded in favour of the more elaborate index that is present. Hunt 247; Nissen BBI 861 & ZBI 1908a; Palau 113538; Sabin 31516.
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