THEOPHRASTUS

De Historia Plantarum Libri Decem, Graece & Latine. In quibus Textum Graecum variis Lectionibus, emendationibus, hiulcorum supplementis: Latinam Gazae versionem nova interpretatione ad margines: totum Opus absolutissimis cum Notis tum Commentariis: i

      Finely engraved title-page (a trifle shaved at outer edge) & 675 woodcuts in the text. 10 p.l. (incl. engr. title), 1187 (i.e. 1185), [87] pp. Folio, cont. Dutch vellum over boards (head of spine somewhat worn, foot of spine with a tear repaired), panelled in blind, central arabesque in blind to each cover, remains of green silk ties. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius, 1644. First edition to be edited by Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel; it !is one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos.!!Hunt 240. H.H. Bartlett wrote in his Fifty-five Rare Books (Ann Arbor: 1949) of this edition: !It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World, and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history, because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l!Escluse or de Lobel, but others seem to be original in this work.! A fine and crisp copy. ❧ D.S.B., XIII, pp. 328-334. See Garrison-Morton 1783. .