Shelfmark
Gb.1.01 - Gb.1.03
Author
Title
Historia plantarum vniuersalis, noua, et absolutissima cum consensu et dissensu circa eas. / Auctoribus J. Bauhino ill. cels. Wirt. archiatro, et Joh. Henr. Cherlero philos. et med. doct. Basiliensibus quam recensuit & auxit Dominicus Chabræus med. doct. Geneuensis. Iuris verò publici fecit. Franciscus Lud. a Graffenried. Dominus in Gertzensee &c. Continens descriptiones stirpium exactas, figuras nouas, ex ipso prototypo maxima ex pare depictas: earumdem satum, cultum, mangonia: item vites omnigenas: præparationes, extractiones, ac destillationes præcipuas: exoticarum Orientis atque Occidentis, aliarumque ante nostrum seculum incognitarum supra mille historias nouas. Synonyma: Æquiuoca: Succedanea: præcipuarum linguarum appellationes. In primu[m] verò placita veterum græcorum, arabum, latinorum & posterioris seculi scriptorum: Interpretationes ac correctiones sententiarum obscurarum & deprauatarum: in qua prætereæ notantur errores eorum qui de plantis scripserunt; ac continentur pleraque omnia, quæ theologi, iuris consulti, medici, philosophi, historici, poetæ, grammatici, geoponici, architecti, aliique de plantis promulgarunt. Vt meritò omnium herbariorum vicem supplere queat.
Varying form of title
Historia plantarum universalis, nova, et absolutissima, cum consensu et dissensu circa eas
Publication, distribution, etc.
Ebroduni. : [Typographia Caldoriana], M.D.CL.-M.D.CLI. [1650-1651]
Physical description
3 v. : ill. ; 40 cm (Fo.).
Note
Includes index in each volume.
Note
Each volume has a different added engraved title page with an architectural frame, signed by Conrad Meyer.
Note
Numbered both in pages and columns. Vol 1: [10], 1-232 p., 233-240 cols., 241-467 p., 467-470 col., 471-601, [1] p.; 440 p., 9, [1] p. Vol 2: [10], 1-169, 178, 172-398, 398a-398o, [2], 399-1074, 12 p. Vol. 3: [8], 212; 1-172 p., 173-180 cols., 181-804, [1], 805-866, [2]; 12 p.
Note
Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, textual illustrations; printed marginalia.
Note
Text predominantly printed on two columns per page.
Note
Name of printer from BM STC French, 1601-1700.
Citation/references note
CLC, II, B478
Citation/references note
BM STC French, 1601-1700, B396
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Late 17th century dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet border and inner frame; blind tooled pointillé fleuron at each corner of frame; gold tooled circle roll on board edges; blind tooled triple fillet and gold tooled ornament on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and letters; six raised bands; red and brown sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ff.2.3-Ff.2.5.
Subject
Botany Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Chabrey, Dominique, 1610 - 1669 compiler.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Société caldorienne printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Yverdon.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46790