Clusius´ Curae posteriores 1611
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CLUSIUS, CAROLUS (CHARLES DE L'ECLUSE). Curae posteriores, seu plurimarum non antè cognitarum, aut descriptarum stirpium, peregrinorum´que aliquot animalium novae desriptiones... Accessit seorism Everardi Vorstii,... de eiusdem Caroli Clusii Vita & obitu oratio, aliorum´que Epicedia . No place (Leiden, in Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii) 1611.
4:o (228x165 mm.). (8), 1-134, (2 blank), (2), 3-39, (1 blank) pp. Title with woodcut printer's device. Woodcut illustrations (plants and animals)
Contemporary vellum, somewhat worn, slightly warped covers, spine with manuscript title in ink, small hole in lower part, inner doublures with remnants of old wrapper. Partly dampstained, mostly marginal, some foxing, some leaves browned.
This is the 4:o edition from 1611, there is also a folio edtion the same year (see Nissen: BBI 368), Pritzel 1761*.
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (1526-1609), seigneur de Watènes, Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. (Wikipedia).
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6412
Datum:
2015-06-16