1714 ICONES PLANTARUM per GALLIAM HISPANIAM et ITALIAM Jacques BARRELIER antique

BARRELIER, Jacques (1603-1673). 

Icones Plantarum  per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam observatar

Volume II


Text by Antoine Laurent Jussieu (1748-1836).


Paris: Stephane Ganeau, 1714.

Folio:  10 by 13 3/4"


FIRST EDITION.

Text in Latin

POOR CONDITION, DAMAGED.

146 pages of text, plus preface and extensive Index.

MOST OF THE PLATES ARE MISSING :

CURRENTLY ONLY 24 LEAVES OF ILLUSTRATIONS SURVIVED)
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Barrelier, a French Dominican doctor who travelled widely through France, Spain and Italy collecting plants and shells on his way, wrote a history of plants entitled either Hortus mundi or Orbis botanicus. Although the manuscript was lost in a fire after his death, the plates intended for the work survived and were acquired by Jussieu, successor to Tournefort as professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes, who arranged for their publication and compiled the accompanying text. Each botanical plate has four figures showing remarkable fidelity to life.


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