COLONNA (Fabio):

Fabi Colvmnae Lyncei Phytobasanos, cui accessit Vita FabI et Lynceorum notitia adnotationesque in phytobasanon Iano Planco Ariminensi Auctore et In Senes Academia Anatomes Publico Professore.

Florentiae I. P. Aere, & Typis Petri Caietani Viviani...., 1744. Large 4to, 290 x 210 mms., pp. [ii], lii, 134 [135 - 136 appendix], engraved vignette of lynx on title-page, 38 superbly engraved illustrations of plants at end, contemporary vellum, blocked in gilt on spine; no blank prelims, but a fine copy. The scientist Fabio Colonna (1567-1650) recognized that the study of leaves by themselves was not sufficient to discern or to classify them properly, especially with regard to those that could be used medicinally. An epileptic, he was drawn to the study of botany as means of finding herbs and concoctions from plants that could be used to ameliorate the symptoms and effects of epilepsy.

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Book number: 7738

Catalogue: Botany

Keywords: botany engraving prose science

MALO (Charles):

La Corbeille de Fruits.

A Paris Chez Janet [ De l'Imprimerie de Richomme, rue Saint-Jacques, No. 67; no date] [1822] Small 8vo (in 4s), 112 x 73 mms., pp. [iv], viii, 188, including half-title, folding calendar for year 1822 at end of text, engraved title-page with fruit basket in colour, 12 full-page engraved and hand-coloured plates of various fruits, attractively bound in green silk, with ornate gilt borders and ornately gilt spine, all edges gilt. A fine copy, contained within a slipcase with matching binding (a little worn). The engravings are sometimes signed plates are signed "P[cancrace]. Bessa pinxt." No copy for this year traced, but OCLC finds 11 copies for the year 1818 (Cornell, Morgan, Delaware, Hawaii, Newberry, Harvard, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt, University of Texas Dallas; Neufchatel), Bibliotheque National et Univ Neufchatel; and one for 1817 in Oak Spring Garden Library in Virgina.

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Book number: 10353

Catalogue: Botany

Keywords: botany binding prose