112240-01  Bauhin, Jean und Jean-Henri Cherler.
Historia plantarum universalis. 3 Bände. (38,5 x 23,5 cm). Band I: (10) 9, 601 (richtig 595) S.; 440 (richtig 438) S.; Band II: (8) 12, 1074 (richtig 1086) S.; Band III: (10 (2w)) 10 (2w) S.; 866 (richtig 874) (2w) S.; 212 S. Mit 3 gestochenen Titeln und über 3500 Textholzschnitten. Pergamentbände der Zeit.
Yverdon, 1650-51.
Erster Druck der ersten Ausgabe (siehe hierzu die Note bei Hunt mit der Bogensignatur "SECVND. Ooooo" und "SECVND. Aaaaa" im dritten Band). - "Bauhin's reputation as a botanist rests upon the encyclopedic 'Historia plantarum universalis' (1650-1651), which was not published until thirty-seven years after his death. It completely overshadows the works published during his lifetime, which give only a limited indication of his originality... From 1600 until his death, Bauhin was engaged in compiling the 'Historia plantarum'. The virtually complete manuscript passed to Dominic Chabrey, an Yverdon physician, who published a summary of the work in 1619. Eventually, Francois Louis de Graffenried of Yverdon financed the publication of the work, which appeared in three volumes. Despite the delay in publication, the work was not obsolete. It contained the description and synonyms of 5,226 plants, primarily from Europe, but with some Eastern and American floras. This represented the fruits of the explorations of Bauhin and his informants, and compilation from ancient and contemporary literature. It also indicates the great progress of botany in the sixteenth century: Brunfels had described 240 plants in 1532; the less accurate 'Historia plantarum generalis' of 1587 reached 3,000; the only works to describe more than this number in the succeeding century were by Jean Bauhin and his brother Gaspard" (DSB). - Vorsatz von Band 1 mit Notiz von alter Hand. Stellenweise leicht stockfleckig bzw. gebräunt, vereinzelt auch etwas stärker. Band 2 stellenweise etwas stärker gebräunt bzw. fleckenrandig. Einbände etwas bestoßen und leicht altersfleckig. Möglicherweise fehlen zwei weiße Blätter im ersten Band. Ingesamt gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - DSB 1, 525; Norman 141; Hunt 251; Nissen BBI 103; Stafleu-Cowan 368; Pritzel 504.

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