Yverdon, s.n., 1650-1651.
Trois volumes in Folio (385x238 mm).
- Vol 1 : Titre gravé, (10)-601 (i.e. 595)-(1bl)-440-9-(3 bl.) pages. Signature : π¹ 2π⁴ [A-T]⁶ V⁴ [X-3D]⁶, [A-2K]⁶ 2L⁸ 2M⁶ 2N⁸ ¶⁶ et le feuillet de titre gravé par Conrad Meyer. Ll6 et ¶6 blancs.
- Vol 2 : Titre gravé, (8)-398 (i.e. 396) pages, (16)-[399] à 1074-12 pages / π¹ 2π¹ ¶² [A-2K]⁶ 2K¶⁶ 2K2¶² [2L-4F]⁶ 4G⁴ [4H-4V]⁶ 4X⁴ †⁶ et le feuillet de titre gravé par Conrad Meyer. 2K2¶ blanc.
- Vol 3 : Titre gravé, (8)-212-866 (i.e. 882)-(2bl.)-12 pages. / π¹ 2π¹ ¶² [A-2C]⁴ 2D², [A-O]⁶ [P-4N]⁴ PRIM.4O⁴ SECVND.4O⁴ [4P-4V]⁴ 4X⁶ [4Y-4Z]⁴ PRIM.5A⁴ SECVND.5A⁴ [5B-5E]⁴ 5F² [5G-5H]⁴ 5I⁶ ¶⁶ et le feuillet de titre gravé par Conrad Meyer. 5L6 blanc.
De nombreuses erreurs de pagination. reliure : Plein vélin rigide de l'époque. Reliures salies, petit manque et accrocs en haut du dos du tome 3 et à une coupe du tome 2. Volume 1 relié sans les gardes volantes. Accrocs en marge des deux premiers feuillets. Quelques salissures aux feuillets de table du volume 3.
Globalement un très bon exemplaire. Les rousseurs sont marginales, ce qui est rare pour cet ouvrage.
références: Norman [141 (later issue)], Arber [pp.113-114], Hunt [251], Nissen [103], Pritzel [504], D.S.B. [""Bauhin's reputation as a botanist rests upon the encyclopedic Historia plantarum universalis (1650-1651), which was not published until thirty-seven years after his death. It completely overshadows the works published during his lifetime, which give only a limited indication of his originality. . Despite the delay in publication, the work was not obsolete. It contained the description and synonyms of 5,226 plants, primarily from Europe, but with some Eastern and American floras. This represented the fruits of the explorations of Bauhin and his informants, and compilation from ancient and contemporary literature. It also indicates the great progress of botany in the sixteenth century: Brunfels had described 240 plants in 1532; the less accurate Historia plantarum generalis of 1587 reached 3000; the only works to describe more than this number in the succeeding century were by Jean Bauhin and his brother Gaspard"], The Cleveland Collections [212].
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