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RENEAULME, Paul de. Specimen historiae plantarum. Plantae typis aeneis expressae. Paris: H. Beys, 1611. Part 1 only (of 2), 4° (242 x 175mm). 25 full-page etched illustrations, with a4 blank and the final blank (minor repairs in top blank margin of a2 & 3, very light browning). Contemporary vellum, later red leather lettering piece on spine (later endpapers). Provenance: Contemporary notes, probably in an English hand, on an endpaper, quoting Avicenna, Hippocrates, Galen and others - SYDNEY C. COCKERELL, Cambridge, Jan.16 1924 (inscription on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION. 'Reneaulme herborized in the Alps, in Switzerland, in Italy, and all around Paris. His book showed some awareness of the necessity of plant classification, but he failed to arouse the interest of his contemporaries. Blunt speaks with understandable enthusiasm of the quality of the etchings, "exquisitely sensitive and extremely personal in treatment". They are assuredly the work, not only of a great lover of nature, but of a great master of the etcher's craft' (Hunt). Part 2 consists of five poems by J.A. de Thou. Nissen BBI 1621; Hunt 192.
FIRST EDITION. 'Reneaulme herborized in the Alps, in Switzerland, in Italy, and all around Paris. His book showed some awareness of the necessity of plant classification, but he failed to arouse the interest of his contemporaries. Blunt speaks with understandable enthusiasm of the quality of the etchings, "exquisitely sensitive and extremely personal in treatment". They are assuredly the work, not only of a great lover of nature, but of a great master of the etcher's craft' (Hunt). Part 2 consists of five poems by J.A. de Thou. Nissen BBI 1621; Hunt 192.
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