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Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Sive Libri XXX by DODOENS, Rembert
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Book desription: Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1583. First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches; 318 x 212 mm). [20], 860, [28] pp. Complete with 1,309 botanical cuts. Contemporary limp vellum, contemporary manuscript title on spine, remnants of leather ties. Near-contemporary ownership inscription to title. Contemporary manuscript marginalia throughout, much of it affected by trimming. Occasional light spotting. Three preliminaries trimmed close, affecting the first line of 2r, the headline and first line of text on leaf 2v, and the headlines of leaves 3-4. Some marginal worming, completely unaffecting text, and the majority of which has been filled with paper at an early date. Overall a very good copy. An honorable copy of what Hunt calls Dodoens' "last and most comprehensive botanical work", with information from a number of his earlier books, including the renowned Cruydeboeck. In the Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Dodoens "divided plants into twenty-six groups and introduced many new families, adding a wealth of illustration either original or borrowed from Dioscorides, de l'ƒcluse, or De Lobel" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585) "was the first of the great Flemish botanists, and in both his Cruydeboeck, 1554, and his Stirpium Historia Pemptades Sex, 1583 ... he helped to forward the growing interest in classification which had begun to be evident as early as 1539 in Bock's Neu Kreuterbuch ... 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 67, 143). "Gerarde's Herbal [1597] is in the main a translation of this work, with the cuts of Bergzabern" (Osler). BMNH vol. I, p. 468. Hunt 143. Nissen, BBI, 517. Osler 2475.
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