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RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535-1596). Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiss so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlnder. Lauringen: Leonhard Reinmichel, 1582.
8o (197 x 147 mm). Title printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border, 3 woodcut title vignettes (2 showing the author on the shores of various Near-Eastern lands; one an Adoration scene in the Holy Land). (Some marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, b4 with marginal chip just catching one shoulder note). Later boards.
FIRST EDITION of Rauwolf's descriptive diary of his journey to various countries of the Near East to collect foreign plants. "Rauwolff was a physician of Augsburg who had botanized with the keenest interest throughout France and Italy, and who finally made a hazardous journey in many parts of the East to collect foreign plants; his herbarium is now carefully preserved at the Rijksherbarium i Leiden. He was a friend of l'Escluse, de Lobel, and many of the other important botanists of his time" (Hunt). He was the first modern botanist to collect and describe the flora of the regions east of the Levantine coast. The first edition contained three books and was unillustrated, except for the title vignettes. A fourth book was aded to the third edition of 1583 and contained 42 woodcuts of plants. BM/STC German p. 727; Hunt 146n; Pritzel 7430n; Norman 1782.
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FIRST EDITION of Rauwolf's descriptive diary of his journey to various countries of the Near East to collect foreign plants. "Rauwolff was a physician of Augsburg who had botanized with the keenest interest throughout France and Italy, and who finally made a hazardous journey in many parts of the East to collect foreign plants; his herbarium is now carefully preserved at the Rijksherbarium i Leiden. He was a friend of l'Escluse, de Lobel, and many of the other important botanists of his time" (Hunt). He was the first modern botanist to collect and describe the flora of the regions east of the Levantine coast. The first edition contained three books and was unillustrated, except for the title vignettes. A fourth book was aded to the third edition of 1583 and contained 42 woodcuts of plants. BM/STC German p. 727; Hunt 146n; Pritzel 7430n; Norman 1782.