Live auction - Lot 249

[Botany - Trees]

URSIN, Johann Heinrich

Arboretum Biblicum. In quo Arbores & Fructices passim in S. Literis occurrentes, ut & Plantae, Herbae ac Aromata, Notis Philologicis, Philosophicis, Theologicis, exponuntur, & illustrantur [...].

Nuremberg, J.D. Tauber, 1699

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Lot description

3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo: [14]-621, [2]-276, 212, [46] pp.; 57 pl. (missing engr. title, waterstaining mostly in the blank margins, some edges frayed).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine (some def. on spine, one corner rubbed).

Second edition of this first attempt to create a concordance of botanical references in the Bible predating the "Hierozoicon" of Samuel Bochart by the German Lutheran scholar and theologian J.H. Ursin (1608-1667). Ill. with 57 engr. full-page pl.
Ref. VD17 1:000066F. - Pritzel 9638. - Not in Nissen (BBI).
Prov. Ms. entries on flyleaf and title.

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Lot 249

Arboretum Biblicum. In quo Arbores & Fructices passim in S. Literis occurrentes, ut & Plantae, Herbae ac Aromata, Notis Philologicis, Philosophicis, Theologicis, exponuntur, & illustrantur [...].

URSIN, Johann Heinrich

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