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IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
CORNUT, Jacques Philippe (1606-1651). Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia nondum editarum historia cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicum parisiense. Paris: Simon le Moyne, 1635.
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CORNUT, Jacques Philippe (1606-1651). Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia nondum editarum historia cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicum parisiense. Paris: Simon le Moyne, 1635.
4° (225 x 165 mm). 68 full-page etchings in text. (Some occasional spotting and staining.) Later calf gilt (upper cover detached, lower hinge starting, some rubbing and wear to extremities). Provenance: 18th-century ink ownership inscription on verso of first blank; early annotations in ink; B. Westermann & Co. (booksellers’ ticket on pastedown); The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, generally considered to be the first Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French physician who never visited North America, but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the Morin family, who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Over thirty species from eastern North America are here described and illustrated for the first time; the importance of which recognized by Linnaeus over a century later as he consulted this work in order to better understand the plants of that region. Cornut also included five South African bulb plants, again illustrated here for the first time. Cleveland Collections 190 (GC copy this copy); Hunt 227; Nissen BBI 406.
4° (225 x 165 mm). 68 full-page etchings in text. (Some occasional spotting and staining.) Later calf gilt (upper cover detached, lower hinge starting, some rubbing and wear to extremities). Provenance: 18th-century ink ownership inscription on verso of first blank; early annotations in ink; B. Westermann & Co. (booksellers’ ticket on pastedown); The Warren H. Corning Collection Horticultural Classics (bookplate on pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, generally considered to be the first Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French physician who never visited North America, but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the Morin family, who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Over thirty species from eastern North America are here described and illustrated for the first time; the importance of which recognized by Linnaeus over a century later as he consulted this work in order to better understand the plants of that region. Cornut also included five South African bulb plants, again illustrated here for the first time. Cleveland Collections 190 (GC copy this copy); Hunt 227; Nissen BBI 406.