De plantis libri XVI

by Andrea Cesalpino

$48,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1583. First edition, and an exceptionally fine copy, of “the first true textbook of botany’ DSB : the introduction of Cesalpino’s classification system, which anticipated Linnaeus’ system of binomial nomenclature. “Whereas other sixteenth-century botanists were content simply to compile vast haphazard catalogues of plants, Cesalpino was

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