Jacques Philippe CORNUT
Canadensium Plantarum Historia Enchiridion Botanicum
apud Simonem Le Moyne|Parisiis [Paris] 1635|17 x 23.50 cm|relié
Canadensium Plantarum Historia Enchiridion Botanicum
Contemporary full-parchment binding, ink title to spine. Later handwritten annotation (19th-century) on verso of first endpaper: “Ouvrage vanté par Linné [Work extolled by Linné] phylos.bota. article 17”.
A work steeped in the tradition of Renaissance herbalism, the Canadensium Plantarum Historia is set apart by its modern system of classification: it contains the very first descriptions of over 70 species of
Apud Simonem Le Moyne, Parisiis [Paris] 1635, in-4 (17 x 23,5 cm), (16) 238 pp (2), full-parchment binding
First edition, illustrated with 68 full-page figures.Contemporary full-parchment binding, ink title to spine. Later handwritten annotation (19th-century) on verso of first endpaper: “Ouvrage vanté par Linné [Work extolled by Linné] phylos.bota. article 17”.
A work steeped in the tradition of Renaissance herbalism, the Canadensium Plantarum Historia is set apart by its modern system of classification: it contains the very first descriptions of over 70 species of
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