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Parkinson’s herbal
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 48. no. 34, as above.
PARKINSON,
John.
Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of a large extent . . . Distributed into Sundry Classes or Tribes,
for the more easie Knowledge of the many Herbes of one nature and property, with the chief notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham
and others inserted therein. Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the King’s Herbarist. And Published by the King’s Majestyes especiall priviledge.
London: Printed by
Tho. Cotes,
1640.
QK41 .P2
First Edition. Folio. 887 leaves, engraved title-page in compartments by W. Marshall, with a portrait of the author, and representations of Adam and Solomon, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
Lowndes IV, 1780.
STC 19302.
Hazlitt II, 444.
Bradley I, 285.
Rohde 214.
Johnson, page 44, no. 77.
John Parkinson, 1567-1650, English apothecary and herbalist.
Matthias de Lobel, 1538-1616, French botanist.
Thomas Bonham, d. 1629?, English physician.
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Tournefort’s Institutiones rei herbariae.
2. vol.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 48. no. 29, as above.
TOURNEFORT,
Joseph Pitton de.
Institutiones rei herbariæ. Editio
tertia. Appendicibus aucta ab Antonio de Jussieu, Lugdunæo.
Lugduni: juxta exemplar
Parisiis, ex
typographia regia,
1719.
2 vol. 4to. Vol. II with plates only; no copy was seen for collation.
Quérard IX, page 517.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xiv, 659.
Pritzel 9427.
Tournefort’s institutiones 2. v. 4to. was one of the books selected by Jefferson from the library of the Rev. Samuel Henley in March 1785.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, 1656-1708, French botanist.
Antoine de Jussieu, 1686-1758, French botanist and physician. This edition of Tournefort’s work secured his admission to the French Academy.
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Linnaei Philosophia Botanica.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 47. no. 5, as above.
LINNAEUS,
Carolus.
Caroli Linnæi . . . Philosophia Botanica in qua explicantur Fundamenta Botanica cum Definitionibus partium, Exemplis terminorum, Observationibus
rariorum, Adjectis Figuris Æneis. Editio Altera.
Viennæ Austriæ: typis
Joannis Thomæ Trattner,
1763.
8vo. 184 leaves: A-Z
8, 9 engraved
tabula by Güti, 2 woodcut
tabula in the text; printer’s woodcut device on the title-page.
Krok, page 452.
British Museum:
A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus, 443.
Hulth, page 79.
This is one of the four works of Linnaeus bought by Jefferson from
Froullé on August 16, 1787 for 130 (livres). It was also one of the books selected by Jefferson from the library of the Rev. Samuel
Henley in March 1785.
The first edition was published in Stockholm in 1751.
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