GESNER, CONRAD. DE RARIS ET ADMIRANDIS HERBIS, QUAE SIVE QUOD NOCTU LUCEANT, SIVE ALIAS OB CAUSAS, LUNARIAE NOMINANTUR, COMMENTARIOLUS: & OBITER DE ALIJS ETIAM REBUS QUAE IN TENEBRIS LUCENT. ZURICH: ANDREAS AND JAKOB GESNER, 1555. 2 PARTS IN ONE, 4TO, 196 137 MM., CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM WITH THE MINORITE ARMS STAMPED IN GILT ON UPPER AND LOWER COVERS, SPINE CUT SLIGHTLY AT CENTER; MINOR MARGINAL SPOTTING AND LIGHT BROWNING, MINOR WORMING ON GUTTER MARGIN. FIRST EDITION, of Gesner's treatise on luminescent plants of the Swiss Alps (and the first book on alpinism). The second part is bound at the front and comprises Jean du Choul's description of Mount Pilatus and Johannes Rhellicanus's poem on Mount Stockhorn. Wellisch 37/38.1; Adams G-524.

GESNER, CONRAD. DE RARIS ET ADMIRANDIS HERBIS, QUAE SIVE QUOD NOCTU LUCEANT, SIVE ALIAS OB CAUSAS, LUNARIAE NOMINANTUR, COMMENTARIOLUS: & OBITER DE ALIJS ETIAM REBUS QUAE IN TENEBRIS LUCENT. ZURICH: ANDREAS AND JAKOB GESNER, 1555. 2 PARTS IN ONE, 4TO, 196 137 MM., CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM WITH THE MINORITE ARMS STAMPED IN GILT ON UPPER AND LOWER COVERS, SPINE CUT SLIGHTLY AT CENTER; MINOR MARGINAL SPOTTING AND LIGHT BROWNING, MINOR WORMING ON GUTTER MARGIN. FIRST EDITION, of Gesner's treatise on luminescent plants of the Swiss Alps (and the first book on alpinism). The second part is bound at the front and comprises Jean du Choul's description of Mount Pilatus and Johannes Rhellicanus's poem on Mount Stockhorn. Wellisch 37/38.1; Adams G-524.

Provenance: "D. Magistro Benedicto Maximo, ped..." contemporary inscription presenting the volume to the Minorites (dated 1566) on main title -- "de Conuenta Rarisiensi Missinorum," early inscription on divisional title -- Musèum d'Histoire Naturale, shield-shaped stamp on divisional title -- KKM/HSNY, bookplate.