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BAUHIN, Gaspard (1560-1624). INAXTheatri botanici. Basel: Knig Ludwig, 1623.
4o (237 x 180 mm). Woodcut device on title. (Few small holes on title-page margin, browned throughout.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard. Provenance: "Viola andaluca Alpini" (signature? on rear endpaper); Dott. Gioacchino Nappi (small stamp on rear pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of the work which marks the beginning of a modern natural classification based on general morphology. The work classifies over 6000 species based on affinities rather than the old alphabetical manner of enumeration. "Bauhinus realized the convenience of the binominal nomenclature which later became a central feature of Linn's system. He decisively differentiated genera and species, giving names to genera, but without descriptions, while distinguishing species by diagnostic phrases. Bauhinus's book is still our most important source for the investigation of the botanical literature preceding him, and from it the way leads through Ray to Linn" (PMM). PMM 121; Pritzel 509; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 367; Norman 139.
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FIRST EDITION of the work which marks the beginning of a modern natural classification based on general morphology. The work classifies over 6000 species based on affinities rather than the old alphabetical manner of enumeration. "Bauhinus realized the convenience of the binominal nomenclature which later became a central feature of Linn's system. He decisively differentiated genera and species, giving names to genera, but without descriptions, while distinguishing species by diagnostic phrases. Bauhinus's book is still our most important source for the investigation of the botanical literature preceding him, and from it the way leads through Ray to Linn" (PMM). PMM 121; Pritzel 509; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 367; Norman 139.