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[DU PINET OR DUPINET, ANTOINE]. Historia Plantarum. Earum imagines, nomenclatura qualitates, & natale solum. Quibus accessere simplicium medicamentoru[m] facultates, secundum locos & genera, ex Dioscoride.
Lyon, Gabriel Cotier 1561. plump 12mo contemporary limp vellum (darkened); 640,240,[26]pp. woodcut title border and 636 woodcuts - one per page. An light, pretty insignificant, stain in the bottom corner of the first several leaves; a pleasing, original copy. ¶ First edition of this well illustrated pocket herbal - to a fair extent based on Pietro Mattioli, whose edition of Dioscorides Du Pinet had translated into French and which was published only moments before this. Each page provides an illustration of a plant, its names in several languages, where found and properties. The Simplicium Medicamentorum at the end (240 pages) is a simple list of complaints, agues and remedies based on Dioscorides. Du Pinet was by profession a Protestant, a busy writer for the cause (he was a friend and has been called the mouthpiece of Calvin) but was not single-minded. As well as writing and translating several botanic works he compiled the first atlas of city plans and translated Pliny the Elder into French.
Offered for AUD 3000.00 = appr. US$ 2391.00 by: Richard Neylon, Bookseller - Book number: 7562