Specimen Historiae Plantarum. Plantae Aeneis Expressae.
By Reneaulme, P. De.
Hardback, contemporary vellum, with later but not recent red leather spine label. 25 full-page etchings. 1st edition 1611. Some darkening of vellum, minor paper repairs in two page margins, some browning of paper. Contemporary ms notes quoting Galen, Hippocrates etc on first blank, Sydney Cockerell's copy with his signature. Front free end-paper is probably later. This copy is without the five poems by J.A. de Thou which are often present as Part II of this book although with separate titlepage and pagination. blunt praises the etchings ".of the highest quality." [Plesch 639]. A splendid copy. (bs51)
Published by: H. Beys, 1611
Vendor: Besleys Books ABA PBFA
By Reneaulme, P. De.
Hardback, contemporary vellum, with later but not recent red leather spine label. 25 full-page etchings. 1st edition 1611. Some darkening of vellum, minor paper repairs in two page margins, some browning of paper. Contemporary ms notes quoting Galen, Hippocrates etc on first blank, Sydney Cockerell's copy with his signature. Front free end-paper is probably later. This copy is without the five poems by J.A. de Thou which are often present as Part II of this book although with separate titlepage and pagination. blunt praises the etchings ".of the highest quality." [Plesch 639]. A splendid copy. (bs51)
Published by: H. Beys, 1611
Vendor: Besleys Books ABA PBFA
