Live auction - Lot 687

[Botany - Medicinal plants]

SAUMAISE, Claude

Praefatio in librum de homonymis hyles iatricae, eiusdem De Plinio iudicium.

Dijon, Widow P. Chavance, 1668

€ 160 / 200

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Sm. folio (4to size): [8]-110 pp. (minor spotting).

Marbl. wr. Nice copy.

Very rare Dijon ed. of 2 essays by the French scholar and Leiden professor Cl. Saumaise (1588-1653) on Greek plant names and on their medical use, and on Pliny the Elder (1st publ. 1629). Woodcut ornament on title. Title in red & black. Ref. Cp. Goldsmith (BL) S-320 (re-issue). - Cp. Matagne (Namur) S-115 (later ed.). - Not in Bibl. Med. Neerl., Krivatsy, Wellcome. Prov. Mod. bookpl.

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Lot 687

Praefatio in librum de homonymis hyles iatricae, eiusdem De Plinio iudicium.

SAUMAISE, Claude

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