ESTIENNE, Charles (1504-1564) Seminarium sive plantarium earum arborum, quae post hortos conseri solent... In puerorum gratiam atque utilitatem: ut post ipsas herbas, etiam arbores cognoscere facile possint. - (Colophon:) Paris, R. Stephanus (Estienne), 1536
8vo. Newly rebound using old limp vellum. Printer's device on title. 107, (19) pp.; small wormhole in inner blank margin and a mild unobtrusive dampstain in lower corner, but an attractive and large copy.
Very rare first edition of «Charles' fourth book for children, dealing with the nomenclature and cultivation of fruit -trees» (Schreiber 61). It gives a detailed account of a large variety of trees including citrus fruits, olives, figs, nutmeg, pistacia, etc. The 19 pp. of indices are in Latin and French. Adams S-1742. Durling 1399. Wellcome I, 6071. Simon, Bibl. Gastronomica, 605 (1537 edn.).
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