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Librería: Patrik Andersson, Antikvariat., Lund, Suecia
Berlin; Weidmannsche Buchhandling, 1934. 24x16 cm. 75-105 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. A rift at head of spine. Wrappers and fore-edge are slightly foxed. From the library of the Swedish professor of Greek Albert Wifstrand (1901-1964).
Año de publicación: 2023
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Publicado por Christianum Wechel, Paris, 1529
Librería: Chaco 4ever Books, Montevideo, MO, Uruguay
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Hardcover. Condición: Aceptable. 8vo 2 vol boun together in contemporary vellum (xxxiv) pp.1 f. blanc, 343, (23) pp. + (xviii) pp, 354, [24]pp Titles in woodcut borders, printer`s device, initial lettres and colophon (155mm x 105mm) Fifth Latin edition edited by Gazes, first Gazes edition published in Trevisio in 1483. Worm holes in margins repared not affecting text. Captal letters and front handcolored. Pritzel 9184 and 9188, hunt 26, BMC.
Librería: Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dinamarca
Miembro de asociación: ILAB
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(Colophon: Basel, apud Andream Cratandrum, 1534). Folio. Nice hcalf from ab. 1750, richly gilt back, gilt title-label. Corners a bit bumped. Slightly rubbed. Woodcut printer's device to title and last leaf. (28),264,(2) pp. With many smaller and larger woodcut initials. Small stamp at lower corner of the first 2 leaves. Some, rather faint, dampstainings to first and last leaves, otherwise clean and with broad margins. Engraved book-plate inside front board (Bibliotheque du comte Le Moyne de Martigny). Very scarce edition of Theophrastus' two main works. It is one of the earliest Latin editions of Gaza's esteemed translation, in reality it is the third printing of the first Latin edition (first issued 1483, then 1529 in 8vo, and now 1534) of the works which together constitute the foundation of scientific botany. By Linnaeus Theophrastus is called "the father of Botany". This edition comprises both botanical works, The History of Plants and The Causes of Plants, which have survived in their entirety and are the earliest books of this kind in world literature."It is very strange that so much botanic knowledge should have been accumulated by the end of the fourth century and that so little, if anything, was added to it in ancient times. Theophrastos is not only the first botanic writer but also the greatest until Renaissance of the sixteenth century in Germany.The botany of Theophrastos and the zoölogy of Aristotle represents the climax of natural history in antiquity." (Sarton in A History.Vol. I p. 558). "No study of plants of such breadth and quality had previously been conceived: botany now first appears as a distinct science with a comprehensive yet clearly defined field of enquiry." (A.G. Morton). - Stillwell No. 702 (Note) - Hunt No. 26 (listing the 1529-edition in 8vo) - Pritzel: 9189. - Not in Choulant, Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die Ältere Medicin.
Librería: Librería Comellas, Barcelona, España
2 parties en 1 volume in-8. 1). 18ff. (le dernier blanc). 343pp. (1). 12ff. - 2). 9ff. 354pp. 12ff. Veau brun, dos à nerfs, plats ornés d'un décor à froid, liens (Reliure de l'époque). Première Edition publiée en France réunissant "l'Histoire des Plantes" et le "Traité sur les Causes des Plantes" du philosophe et naturaliste grec Théophraste d'Erèse, élève d'Aristote et son successeur à la direction du Lycée d'Athènes. Ces deux ouvrages traduits du grec par l'humaniste Théodore Gaza, constituent la totalité de son uvre de botaniste. Theophraste fut le premier à étudier les plantes indépendamment des animaux, donnant ainsi à la botanique un objet spécifique. Il reconnut l'importance de l'observation et tenta, pour la première fois, de classer méthodiquement les végétaux. On lui doit également d'avoir essayé le premier un classement de leurs maladies. "Ce qui est surtout admirable dans l'oeuvre de Théophraste c'est qu'elle est essentiellement conduite dans un but scientifique et nullement utilitaire" (Dictionnaire des Oeuvres). Cette édition est très rare et on trouve rarement les deux ouvrages réunis. Ils ont chacun un titre et une pagination séparés et devaient se vendre séparément. Pritzel ne cite que le premier et dans la collection décrite par Durling (Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine) ne figure que le second. Chaque titre est entouré d'une jolie bordure typographique et le texte est en italiques. A la fin de chaque volume figure un vocabulaire des termes grecs avec leur traduction latine. Quelques mouillures claires. Bon exemplaire dans sa première reliure habilement restaurée.
Publicado por apud Henricum Laurentium,, Amstelodami,, 1644
Librería: Studio Bibliografico Benacense, Riva del garda, Italia
Cm. 37, pp. (20) 1187 (89). Bel frontespizio interamente figurato e centinaia di incisioni xilografiche nel testo raffiguranti varietà di piante e fiori. Solida legatura strettamente coeva in pergamena rigida, dorso a nervi con titoli manoscritti. Qualche naturale brunitura al alcune carte, ma esemplare molto genuino, marginoso ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Stimata e celebre edizione che presenta il testo latino e greco di questo classico considerato più importante dal punto di vista scientifico-botanico che filologico. Cfr. Nissen, Pritzel, e Choulant.
Librería: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Finely engraved title-page (a trifle shaved at outer edge) & 675 woodcuts in the text. 11 p.l. (incl. engr. title), 1187 (i.e., 1185), [87] pp. Folio, cont. Dutch vellum over boards (upper joint with small split of 7 cm. at foot, minor pale dampstaining to first 20 leaves & last third of book), panelled in blind, central arabesque in blind to each cover, ties gone. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius, 1644. First edition to be edited by Joannes Bodaeus à 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. Bookplate of Piergiorgio Borio, M.D. â § D.S.B., XIII, pp. 328-34. See Garrison-Morton 1783.
Publicado por apud Henricum Laurentium, 1644., Amstelodami,, 1644
Librería: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Suiza
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Folio in 6s. [20], 418, 417-[694], 495-529, 730-[994], 997-1187, [1], [88] pp. Numerous mispaginations noted. With the magnificent engraved title, and 600-700 decorative botanical woodcuts. Text in 2 columns, index not paginated, parallel texts in Greek and Latin. Bound recently in full antique-style speckled calf, richly gilt-tooled in a masterfully elegant binding; some neat paper mends to gutter (front & back leaves), some leaves variously stained at edges in the rear, pages 950-988 browned. New endleaves. The splendid Bodaeus van Stapel edition of Theophrastus' seminal work, Enquiry into Plants, beautifully illustrated with hundreds of fine woodcuts of all the known plants. This is the first edition by edited by Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602-1636), who died prior to the book being issued. This edition of Bodaeus van Stapel is the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus. The book is the first comprehensive systematization all known plants, and as such important in the history of plant science. Plants of the new world, America, Asia and Africa, are included. / The editor, Bodaeus van Stapel, is known for this particular work, the Latin version of Theophrastus' Historia plantarum, the text completed before his death in 1636 and published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1644 by his father. / Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote of this edition: "This edition displays great care and research; the notes are numerous and learned, and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle, Pliny, Dioscorides, and other ancient writers, seems to be embodied in this work. The conjectures of Scaliger, Constantine, and Salmasius, and also incorporated; and although Haller has censured Bodaeus for occasionally wandering from his subject, and introducing a few errors, the present [this edition of 1644] is nevertheless an edition well deserving of the curious botanist's attention: for it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of plants. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species, which are much better uncoloured than coloured." - Thomas Frognall Dibdin, An Introduction to The Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics . . . London, 1808, vol. II, p. 285. / This edition of Theophrastis is "one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastis" - Hunt. / "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'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work." - Harley Harris Bartlett, Fifty-five Rare Books for the botanical library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt. Clements Library, 1949. / SEE: Theophrastus. Enquiry into Plants. With an English translation by Arthur Hort. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916. / McDiarmid, J. B. 'Theophrastus.' In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. New York, 1976. Vol XIII, pp. 328-334. / Morton, Alan G. History of Botanical Science. London and New York, 1981. / Negbi, Moshe. 'The scientific cradle of botany - Theophrastus and other pioneers.' In: Israel Journal of Plant Sciences vol 58, pp. 309-18. 2010. / Sharples, Robert W. Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for this Life, Writings, Thought and Influence. Commentary Vol. 5. Sources on Botany. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
Publicado por Amsterdam: Hendrick Laurensz, 1644
Librería: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION edited by Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel. Folio (37 x 23 cm); 1187 pp. plus index un-paginated; double column, text in parallel Greek and Latin. With fine engraved pictorial title; numerous woodcut botanical illustrations in the text; woodcut decorative initials. Small wormhole trace at foot of first few ff., diminishing in size as proceeds; minor wormholes to upper margins on last few ff. Small tear at 3H5 within text, without loss. Contemporary vellum; spine in compartments and with later gilt filets, small black floral motifs and a green morocco label, inconspicuous restoration; covers with blind-stamped arabesque centre-pieces, lacking ties, and showing signs of cracking in joints on lower, upper cover, little stained and marked. An excellent copy. As described by Hunt, this is one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastus. 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 Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work. (H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, quoted by Hunt). Richly illustrated edition in excellent condition. Hunt 240.
Librería: Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Dinamarca
Miembro de asociación: ILAB
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Amsterdam, Heinric Laurentius, 1644. Folio. Contemporary full vellum with neat later (19th century) rebacking. Six raised bands and gilt title to spine. Some wear to extremities. Internally a fresh and clean copy with only a bit of occasional brownspotting. Endpapers with a bit of soiling. 2 bookplates to inside of front board: Gilbert Redgrave, London (dated 1894) & Gorden M. Jones, Virginia. Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut title-page, numerous woodcut intials throughout, and more than 600 woodcut illustrations in the text. (20), 1187, (1), (88 - Index) pp. First edition thus, being the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus' seminal work "Enquiry into Plants" - the first systematization of the botanical world and the most important contribution to botanical science up until the Renaissance. Bodaeus von Stapel's groundbreaking edition constitutes the first illustrated edition of Theophrastus' masterpiece as well as the first with both Greek and Latin text. Furthermore, von Stapel has not only collected all relevant commentaries and knowledge, he has also added corrections and much foundational information, turning the work into one of the most influential botanical works of the 17th century, profoundly influencing the likes of Linnaeus and contributing significantly to the development of modern scientific botany. "This edition displays great care and research" the notes are numerous and learned, and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle, Pliny, Dioscorides, and other ancient writers, seems to be embodied in this work. The Greek text is Heinsius's" the Latin version is that of the editor, who has placed Gaza's in the margin, with frequent corrections. The conjectures of Scaliger, Constantine, and Salmasius, are also incorporated. it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of the PLANTS. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species, which are much better uncoloured than coloured." Dibdin II:498). The numerous woodcut plant illustrations were partly copied from other sources and partly made especially for this edition. Thus, apart from being "one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos" (Hunt), our editor has also made original contributions that are of great importance. "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'Ecluse or de Lobel, but others seem original in this work" (H.H. Bartlett: Fifty-five Rare Books - quoted by Hunt).At the height of the Renaissance, with the expansion of the known world and the spreading of the book due to the invention of the printing press, many new publications on plants appeared. Most of these publications, however, were primarily concerned with the medicinal qualities of individual plants and only few authors or editors took an interest in the general nature of the plants and how they could systematically be classified. One of the few exceptions was Bodaeus von Stapel. With his seminal 1644 edition of "Historia Plantarum", he focused on the overarching classification system of plants and took Theophrastus' work a step further, adding essential commentaries and illustrations - illustrations that were to be copied for centuries after. These illustrations remain the standard illustrations of Theophrastus' foundational work. This edition of Theophrastus' "Historia Plantarum" became the standard edition of that earliest work on systematic botany and the edition that all serious scientific botanists of the 17th and 18th centuries will have studied. "Linnaeus, in the practice of his favourite art of systematizing, classified not only plants but the writers about them. The writers he distinguishes primarily as Botanists, and Plant Lovers, recognizing as Botanists only such as treat of plants from some philosophic or scientific point of view. Choosing his illustrations from annals of remote antiquity, he names among the earliest of the Greeks who wrote of plants Hippocrates" but because he wrote of plants only in the interests of medicine Linnaeus styles him Father of Medicine. Similarly Aristotle. is down in the Linnaean list of ancient celebrities as Prince of Philosophers. To Theophrastus, however, he accords the title Father of Botany. From this opinion, far from having been newly promulgated in Linnaeus's time, there has been no dissenting voice. On the contrary, Albert Haller, one of the most learned men in Europe in his day, and a botanist of such renown that Linnaeus held him in reverence, and also in some fear, denominates Theophrastus "the first of real botanists in point of time." Kurt Sprengel in the nineteenth century, having rehearsed the names of a long line of ancient authors who had written more or less concerning plants, says: "But the most illustrious of them all, and the true father of botany, was Theophrastus Eresius?." (Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History, I:128).It is no wonder that Linnaeus should find in Theophrastus the Father of his own field - The "Historia Plantarum" was not only the earliest work on systematic botany, it also contained Theophrastus' description of the formation of the plant seed, the earliest account known and the best that was made for 2000 years.Hunt: 240" Pritzel: 9197 BM: V:2091 Dibdin: II:498.
Publicado por Bartholomaeus Confalonerius 2 Feb, Treviso, 1483
Librería: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Folio, 153 leaves (lacks the front blank and 2 leaves of text (supplied in clean facsimile). 28.4'x19.2 cm. Bound in later cloth backed boards, some marginal waterstaining, contemporary Italian marginalia (some trimmed close) throughout with a full page of contemporary notes on the verso of the final leaf. HC 15491; BMC VI 894; BM-Ital 668; Klebs 958.1; Garrison (1929) 12; Castiglioni (1947) 181-182; Stillwell T132; Goff T-155; Pritzel 9184;Osler 263; Stillwell, The Awakening . 72; Procter 648; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 18; Norman 266. Rare, this had not been to auction since December of 1967 (when it sold for $75,000), until it sold for $55,200 at the Haskell Norman sale (3/18/1998). Stillwell notes that this is the earliest scientific botany. A study of about 5 plants described according to a rather primitive classification which held, however, until the mid-sixteenth century. Its ninth section, on the medicinal properties of plants"the earliest extant herbal, except for fragments of a Greek herbal, c. 35 B.C."is believed to have been added somewhat after Theophrastus's time. Known as the founder of scientific botany, Theophrastus was born in Lesbos and was Aristotle's most highly regarded student and succeeded Aristotle as head of the Lyceum in Athens. He was a prolific writer, yet only these two works survive as major works. His De Historia Plantarum described and classifies several hundred plants while the De Causis Plantarum is a work of etiology: exploring a number of topics including generation, seeds, and the effects of cultivation on wild species. The Historia divides plants into four main divisions: trees, shrubs, undershrubs and herbs. The translation is by Theodoros Gaza, a Greek who became a leading figure in the Italian Renaissance. This translation was commissioned by Pope Nicholas V (1448-1455), a patron of scholars who wished to set up a library that included Greek texts in Latin. First edition, in Latin (later issued in Greek with the Aldine Aristotle editions of 1497 and 1498).