.jpg?w=1)
Details
JOHN PARKINSON (1576-1650)
Theatrum Botanicum, the Theatre of Plants. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. 2 vols 2° (326 x 218mm). Additional engraved title with portrait of the author by William Marshall, title within engraved border, in excess of 2,000 woodcut illustrations, 5 hand-coloured. (6N1 with small marginal tear repaired, occasional browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf, gilt monogram on covers, dark edges (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Joseph Yates (book label) -- Alicia D. Laughlin (signature, 1936).
FIRST EDITION: the earliest record of some of Great Britain's most interesting native plants. Theatrum Botanicum is an attempt to describe nearly 4,000 plants, almost 1,000 more than were contained in Johnson's edition of Gerard. 'The descriptions in many instances are new, and great care was exercised to secure accuracy in indicating localities' (Hunt). In the present copy 5H2 and 5H5 in vol. II are repeated twice. Arber p.136-37; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI, 1490; Plesch 585; STC 19302. (2)
Theatrum Botanicum, the Theatre of Plants. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. 2 vols 2° (326 x 218mm). Additional engraved title with portrait of the author by William Marshall, title within engraved border, in excess of 2,000 woodcut illustrations, 5 hand-coloured. (6N1 with small marginal tear repaired, occasional browning and soiling.) Contemporary calf, gilt monogram on covers, dark edges (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Joseph Yates (book label) -- Alicia D. Laughlin (signature, 1936).
FIRST EDITION: the earliest record of some of Great Britain's most interesting native plants. Theatrum Botanicum is an attempt to describe nearly 4,000 plants, almost 1,000 more than were contained in Johnson's edition of Gerard. 'The descriptions in many instances are new, and great care was exercised to secure accuracy in indicating localities' (Hunt). In the present copy 5H2 and 5H5 in vol. II are repeated twice. Arber p.136-37; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI, 1490; Plesch 585; STC 19302. (2)