Histoire des plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'isle Virgine et autres lieux, lesquelles ont esté prises et cultivées au jardin de Monsieur Robin Arboriste du Roy.
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Paris, Guillaume Macé, 1620. 16mo (110 x 70mm.). 16 pp, title within woodcut printed border with plants and animals, with 14 woodcuts of flowering plants. (Together with:) LINOCIER, G. L'histoire des plantes, traduicte de latin en françois: avec leurs pourtraicts, noms, qualitez & lieux où elles croissent. A laquelle sont adjoustées celles des simples aromatiques, animaux à quatre pieds, oiseaux, poissons, serpents & autres bestes venineuses, ensemble les distillations... Revue & corrigé par les doctes de nostre temps. Seconde edition. Paris, Guillaume Macé, 1620. 16mo. pp. (2), 704, 239, (1), (56, index). 5 printed titles within woodcut border with animals and plants and numerous woodcuts of plants and animals. Later vellum binding.
the first book dedicated to botany to include North American plants and according to Sabin of 'extreme rarity'
Robin's publication is the first book dedicated to botany to include North American plants and according to Sabin of 'extreme rarity'. Only 14 institutional copies can be identified. Some copies of Robin's work are bound in together with the second edition of Linocier's work, as is the case here. Jean Robin (1550-1629) was a French botanist and royal gardener of Henry III, Henry IV and Louis XIII; from 1590 at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Of the 14 woodcuts of plants 5 are from the New World, 4 from Europe and 5 from Asia.
The work by G. Linocier has about 900 woodcuts and according to Wellisch A 28.5 (quoting the first edition of 1584) 'compiled this book from various sources which he translated into French'. Apart from the general title as quoted above these are, all with their printed title and woodcut borders: L'Histoire des plantes aromatiques qui croissant en l'Inde tant Occidentale qu'Orientale? & cultivées aux Jardin de Mr. Robin. Paris , chez Guillaume Mace, 1619; L'Histoire des animaux à quatre pieds, recueillie de Gesnerus? Paris, chez Guillaume Mace, 1619; L'Histoire des Oyseaux, recueillie de Gesnerus? Paris, chez Guillaume Mace, 1619; L'Histoire des Poissons, recueillie de Gesnerus? Paris, chez Guillaume Macé, 1619; Histoire des Serpens recueillie de Gesnerus? Paris, chez Guillaume Macé, 1619; Entier discours et manière de distiller les eaux de toutes fortes de plantes et la vertu qui en provient? Paris, Guillaume Macé, 1619.
A fine and clean copy, outer margin somewhat trimmed, touching occasionally some catchwords.
John Carter Brown II, p. 149; Pritzel 7672; Sabin 72042.