Catalogus Plantarum Latine Graece Germanice Gallice Namenbuch Aller Erdegewachsen Latinisch

by Conrad Gesner Or Gessner

$32,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1542. 4 p.l., 162 leaves. Small 4to, cont. blindstamped panelled pigskin, remains of two deerskin ties. Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1542. First edition of a very rare book on the market; this is a lovely fresh copy in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin. This, Gesner’s second botanical work, is “an alphabetically arranged catalog of plant names in four languages, the first of its kind, and an indication of the growing interest in botany beyond purely

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