WITH A NEW DEFINITION OF ‘FLOWER’ & OVER 1300 WOODCUTS
DODOENS, Rembert Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Sive Libri XXX Antwerp Plantin 1583
First edition of Dodoens’ summation of his botany, the “most comprehensive botanical work, incorporating material from a number of his earlier books, including the Cruyderboeck.” The work divides plants into 26 families, introduces many new species, and also marks a stage in the development of plant anatomy. “It is of interest, too, in that Dodoens here made an attempt at an explanation of the parts of plants. It consists of only a page and a third ‘but the selection of the words explained and the substance of the explanations hit the essential points better than Fuchs.’ (Sachs)” (Hunt 143).
* Nissen 517; Pritzel 2359; Hunt 143; M. Florkin, DSB IV.138-9.
$US6800
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