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THEOPHRASTUS (c. 371-c. 287 B.C.). De Historia Plantarum. Amsterdam: Judoci Broerseen, 1644.
2° (352 x 220mm). Text printed in Greek and Latin, engraved title, 624 botanical woodcuts [Cleveland Collections count] and woodcut initials. (Paper flaw with minor loss on B4, occasional browning and spotting, few rust spots and small stains). Contemporary vellum, blindstamped ornamental centrepieces within borders, panelled spine with manuscript title (lacking ties, front joint splitting, some soiling).
‘ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST THOUGHTFULLY PREPARED OF ALL THE EDITIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS’ (Hunt). Edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel, this edition ‘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’ (Hunt). Cleveland Collections 204; Hunt 240.
2° (352 x 220mm). Text printed in Greek and Latin, engraved title, 624 botanical woodcuts [Cleveland Collections count] and woodcut initials. (Paper flaw with minor loss on B4, occasional browning and spotting, few rust spots and small stains). Contemporary vellum, blindstamped ornamental centrepieces within borders, panelled spine with manuscript title (lacking ties, front joint splitting, some soiling).
‘ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST THOUGHTFULLY PREPARED OF ALL THE EDITIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS’ (Hunt). Edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel, this edition ‘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’ (Hunt). Cleveland Collections 204; Hunt 240.
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