Beschreibung:

NATURAL HISTORY]. -- ALPINUS, Prosper. De plantis Aegypti liber. Edited by Johann Vesling. Padua: Paolo Frambotti, [1638]-40. 3 parts in one volume, 4 o . 73 woodcut illustrations in text, many full-page, ornamental head- and tail-pieces, initials. Contemporary vellum. Second edition of De plantis Aegypti with De balsamo , first edition of Vesling's commentaries. Cleveland Collections 200; Nissen BBI 20; Hunt 231 (Vesling only); Pritzel 111; Wellcome I:234 (Alpinus only). -- BOERHAAVE, Hermann. Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo... Leiden: Peter van der Aa, 1720. 2 volumes in one, 4 o . Engraved title vignette and 40 engraved plates, including 3 folding plates. Later sheep. FIRST EDITION of this title based upon the unillustrated Index plantarum of 1710. Lindeboom 434; Nissen BBI 186; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 593. -- BUXBAUM, Johann Christian. Plantarum minus cognitarum... plantas circa Byzantium & in oriente observatas. St. Petersburg: Typographia Academiae, 1728-29. 3 parts (of 5) in one volume. 4 o . 189 (of 276) engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Provenance : E. Nolte (ownership inscription). FIRST EDITION. Rare and important pre-Linnaean work on the plants of Constantinople and its environ. Nissen BBI 309. -- MAGNOL, Pierre. Botanicum monspeliense sive plantarum circa Monspelium nascentium... Lyon: F. Bourly, 1676. 8 o . 19 engraved plates in text and 3 engraved plates (light marginal dampstaining). Modern calf, spine gilt. Provenance : Carl Grapin (early ownership inscription on title). FIRST EDITION, second issue of Magnol's first publication, a catalogue of plants growing in the Montpellier region. Hunt 347; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 5230. -- MUNTING, Abraham. Waare Oeffening der Planten. Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz, 1672. 4 o . Engraved title and 40 engraved plates (lacks letterpress title). 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards. FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 1430. (5)