De Plantis

by Andrea Cesalpino

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First edition

4to. 21 x 14.5 cm , 10 ff., 621 pp., 5 ff. Bound in 18th-century boards, some abrasion, scattered foxing. From the libraries of the noted botanists Camerarius, Panzer and Martius see below , with annotations. A crisp copy. First edition, and an important annotated copy, of the foundational text of scientific botany and the first articulation of the modern concept of species. Andrea Cesalpino’s 1519-1603 comparative plant taxonomy –

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