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Beautiful collection of
very rare nature prints
(ferns and leaves of trees and plants), printed in
green, without identification or commentary. Nature printing is a printing process that uses plants
(or other natural objects) to produce an image. The technique was i.a. developed by Alois Auer
(1813-1869): the object is placed between a plate of steel and another of lead, both of which are
smooth, and polished; they are then drawn through a pair of rollers under considerable pressure;
when the plates are separated, it is found that a perfect impression of the object has been made in
the leaden plate; this may be used directly as an engraved plate, but only if a very few impressions
are wanted, for it is too soft to resist the action of printing presses for practical purposes. Armorial
bookpl. Francis Patrick Smith.
Ref.
R. Cave, Impressions of nature (2010).
1000 [Botany]
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DODONAEUS, Rembertus
- Cruydt-boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe
(...) Item, in’t laetste een Beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt
de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Antwerp, Plantin Press (B. Moretus), 1644, folio, cont. blindst.
calf over wood (rubbed, sl. wormed), edges bevelled inside, spine on 5 raised bands (head & tail
dam.), metal catches (clasps gone), [36]-1492-[60] pp. (paper age-toned, sm. wormtracks and single
wormholes in last quires, final blank loose). Very good copy.
€ 1500/2000
The last and most extensive of all Plantin Press editions of the great botanical encyclopaedia
by Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585). Illustrated with a nice engr. title with medallion portraits of
Dodoens and Clusius and some
1430 woodcut ills of plants and herbs
. Cont.
engr. portrait of
Dodoens
pasted on verso of half-title, facing title, and
surrounded by a cut-out border from a 15th-
c. illuminated manuscript
with coat-of-arms (blackened).
Ref.
B.B. II:226-227 D-121. Nissen 518.
Krivatsy 3304. BMN I:502. Not in Wellcome.
1001 [Botany]
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DODONAEUS, Rembertus
- Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive libri XXX. Varie
ab auctore, paullo ante mortem, aucti & emendati. Antwerp, B. & J. Moretus, 1616, folio, cont. calf
(rebacked, corners rubbed and bumped, scratches and sm. def. on covers, loosening), spine on 6
raised bands (joints rubbed, head and tail rubbed, sm. def. at head), [16]-872-[66] pp. (margins of
title and 1st leaves browned and defect., inside clean). Good copy.
€ 750/1250
2nd Latin ed. (first 1583) of this monumental botanical study divided into 6 large sections and
26 groups by R. Dodoens (1517-1585). Illustrated with an
engr. architectural title
and +/-
1340
woodcuts
representing plants. The largest part of these ills were already printed in other botanical
studies by Dodonaeus, Clusius and Lobelius. Ticket of the Chester Library on flyleaf.
Ref.
B.B.
II:223-224 D-119. Nissen 517. Pritzel 2350.
1002 [Botany]
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MATTHIOLI, Pietro Andrea
- Les commentaires de M.P. Andre Matthiolus medicin
Senois sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen, de la matiere Medecinale [trsl. from
the Latin A. du Pinet]. Lyon, Rigaud, 1605, folio, modern calf, spine on 5 raised bands, [140]-
606-[33] pp. (browning, waterstaining mostly in the margins, sm. hole in p. 337, first and last leaf
washed and repaired).
€ 400/500
Lyon reprint (orig. 1561) of the French trsl. of the botanical work of P.A. Matthioli (1500-1577). It
deals with the medical use of plants and animals, and has a final chapter on distillation. Illustr. with
woodcuts: title within ornamental border, full-page portrait of Mattioli and 918 ills in texto.
Ref.
Pritzel 5991. Nissen 1312. Bn-Opale plus.
1003 [Botany]
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MUNTING, Abraham
- Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen, waar in de
veelerley aart en bijzondere eigenschappen der boomen, heesters, kruyden, bloemen, met haare
vrugten, zaden, wortelen en bollen (...) in drie onderscheide boeken, naauwkeuriglijk beschreeven
worden (...). Leiden, Utrecht, P. vander Aa, François Halma, 1696, folio, mod. vellum (19th c.?),
front cover with gilt ornamental border and corner pcs, lower cover blindruled, gilt spine with red
and black leather title labels, marbl. endpapers, [18] ff.-930 cols-[32] ff. (lacking 1 text f. Xx1 = col.
689-692; some dampstaining and marg. soiling, pl. 141 loose, some edges frayed or with sm. tears,
some repairs, sellotape repair to pl. 25 & 26, tears in pl. 43 & 206, left top corner of pl. 158 torn off).
Acceptable copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1500/2000