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IMPORTANT BOTANICAL BOOKS FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
THEOPHRASTUS (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.). De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel. Amsterdam: Judoci Broerseen, 1644.
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THEOPHRASTUS (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.). De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel. Amsterdam: Judoci Broerseen, 1644.
2° (347 x 218 mm). Text printed in Greek and Latin, engraved title and approximately 602 botanical woodcuts and approximately 45 woodcut initials in text. (A few marginal tears with loss, Iii2 with a paper flaw affecting a few letters and a marginal tear touching page number.) Later calf (rebacked, corners bumped, covers lightly rubbed). Provenance: Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate); Gordon W. Jones (bookplate).
Edited by Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel, this edition is one of the best critical editions of Theophrastus. "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work" (H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt). Cleveland Collections 204; Hunt 240.
2° (347 x 218 mm). Text printed in Greek and Latin, engraved title and approximately 602 botanical woodcuts and approximately 45 woodcut initials in text. (A few marginal tears with loss, Iii2 with a paper flaw affecting a few letters and a marginal tear touching page number.) Later calf (rebacked, corners bumped, covers lightly rubbed). Provenance: Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate); Gordon W. Jones (bookplate).
Edited by Joannes Bodaeus á Stapel, this edition is one of the best critical editions of Theophrastus. "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work" (H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt). Cleveland Collections 204; Hunt 240.