SCALIGER (Jules César).
Title: In libros duos, qui inscribuntur de plantis, Aristotele autore, libri duo.
Description: Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1556. In-4, vélin rigide, dos lisse, tranches bleues (Reliure du XVIIe siècle).Édition originale de cet important commentaire du traité pseudo-aristotélicien sur les plantes (De plantis), aujourd'hui attribué à Nicolas de Damas.
« Scaliger sought to advance botany and simples by his admirable editions of three ancient treatise: the De Plantis of pseudo-Aristotle (Nicolaus of Damascus) and the two works of Theophrastus on plants. All three benefit from the editor's knowledge of actual specimens. Scaliger tried to effect a new and more consistent classifications of plants but feared the ignorant persons would try to adhere to the older descriptions » (DSB).
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Adams, S-587 – Durling, n°4096 – Pritzel, n°8088.
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Title: In libros duos, qui inscribuntur de plantis, Aristotele autore, libri duo.
Description: Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1556. In-4, vélin rigide, dos lisse, tranches bleues (Reliure du XVIIe siècle).Édition originale de cet important commentaire du traité pseudo-aristotélicien sur les plantes (De plantis), aujourd'hui attribué à Nicolas de Damas.
« Scaliger sought to advance botany and simples by his admirable editions of three ancient treatise: the De Plantis of pseudo-Aristotle (Nicolaus of Damascus) and the two works of Theophrastus on plants. All three benefit from the editor's knowledge of actual specimens. Scaliger tried to effect a new and more consistent classifications of plants but feared the ignorant persons would try to adhere to the older descriptions » (DSB).
Quelques marginalia et soulignés anciens. Cachet aux initiales FL au titre.
Quelques rousseurs.
Adams, S-587 – Durling, n°4096 – Pritzel, n°8088.
Exhibited: 16
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