(Science) — Lobel, Matthias de.- Plantarum seu Stirpium historia [...] [- Nova stirpium adversaria [...],- Formulae aliquot remediorum [...],- In stirpium observationes et adversaria [...]]. Antverpia, ex officina Christophorus Plantinus (excudebat...
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1.500 / 1.800
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Christophorus Plantinus), 1576. 4 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : 671 [i.e. 675, engraved title incl.], [4 engraved title incl.]-471-[1 bl.], 15-[1 bl.], 24- [15] pp. (washed (?), cancels on the engravings of pp. 133-136-280 in part Iand on p. 252 in part Ii, some browned pp., foxing, dampstains in some margins, tears -one without loss in p. 497 and some repaired-, rare contemporary handwritten notes). Contemporary binding : pigskin on wooden boards with clasps, boards fully blind stamped with fillets and roll-stamps (floral ornaments, portraits and scenes of Jesus’ life) encircling central panels figuring the Justice on upper board and Lucrece on the lower board, ribbed spine with leather label, blue edges, guards (partly rubbed, joints partly split, labels stuck on the upper pastedown, modern handwritten notes on the upper flyleaf, ex-libris partly stuck on the upper flyleaf). First Plantinian edition of this botany work by the Flemish physician and botanist Lobel (1538-1616), illustrated with c. 1.700 woodcuts engraved by Corn. Muller, Gérard Janssen van Campen, Arnold Nicolai and Antoine vander Leest, after Pieter vander Borcht. Contains : a) "Plantarum seu Stirpium historia" : in variant B (which is "the "normal" one", cfr Voet), written between 1571-1576, concerning especially the plants in the Netherlands and in Belgium followed by the "De succedaneis, imitatione Rondeletii" giving substition medicines and the organisation of drawyers for the plants conservation. The "Stirpium" was in fact the complement of the "Nova stirpium adversaria" but Plantin placed it first in his edition, b) "Nova stirpium adversaria" : published in London in 1570-1571 under Lobel’s name and the one of his friend Pierre Pena (1520/1535-1600-1605), which is an introduction to classical medicine describing c. 1.400 species followed by the "Appendix nonnullarum stirpium" dealing with 34 rare plants which were, at that time, newly introduced in Belgium, c) "Formula aliquot remediorum" : formula remedies after the notes of the French doctor Guillaume Rondelet (1507- 1566), professor of Lobel, d) "In stirpium observationes et adversaria" : indexes in Latin, French, German, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Italian. Many copies of the "Stirpium adversaria nova" remained unsold, Plantin bought 800 of them. He "rearranged somewhat the English publication, added an appendix, and added also, but with separate pagination, an Index and the "Formulae Guillielmi Rondelletii" (cfr Voet). The "Stirpium" and the "Adversaria" are preceded by a typographical title within a portico (Plantin’s mark on the first). Large medallion figuring the emblem of Lobel with his motto "Candore et spe" by A. vander Leest at at the back of the dedicatory of the "Stirpium". # Voet III-1406/1411 ; # BB III-1128/1133; # Adams L-1382 ("Stirpium"); # Machiels L-415 and 416; # BT I-1975, II-8668 and 8669; # USTC 412517 and 401688; # Nissen, BBI, 1218; # Pritzel 5548; # not in Soltész. Provenance : Christopher Wolff of Emersdorf 1575 (emblazoned ex-libris); Cistercian monastery/abbey of Heiligenkreuz in Austria. fl Première édition plantinienne de cet ouvrage de botanique illustré de 1.796 bois in texto. Le "Nova stiripium adversaria" ou "Stirpium adversaria nova" fut publié pour la première fois en 1570-1571 à Londres, Plantin reprit l’ouvrage, le réarrangea et l’augmenta. Pleine peau de truie estampée à froid de l’ép. (lavé (?), qqs pp. brunies, rouss. et piqures, qqs déch.-une dans le texte sans manque p. 497 et certaines restaurées-, mors part. fendus).
