Cornut Jacques Philippe (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. THE FIRST CANADIAN FLORA; THE ESTERHÁZY-GALÁNTHA COPY. First edition. Paris: Simon Le Moyne, 1635. Quarto (9 1/8" x 6 11/16", 232mm x 169mm). [Full collation available.] With 68 engraved plates integral to the text. Bound in contemporary vellum. On the spine, traces of manuscript titling at the head, and a pasted paper label ("1574," likely an accession number) to the tail. Wear at the spine, with patches of splitting and loss. Front joint strengthened. Mild even peripheral tanning, and the very rare spot of foxing. Slightest worming to the fore-edge from the title-leaf through A4 (mostly two tiny tracks, not affecting the text). Armorial bookplate of Schloss Nordkirchen to the front paste-down. Ink notation "T i" in an old hand to the title-page. From the explorations of Champlain in the early XVIIc, knowledge of Canada (to the French mind, extending as far south as the Gulf of Mexico) and its seemingly infinite natural wealth and complexity flowed into France, encouraging colonization. The present work (to p. 214) is the first comprehensive account of the flora of Canada (and of the French territory in the modern United States), assembled by Jacques-Philippe Cornut (1606-1651) and illustrated, it is thought, by Pierre Vallet (ca. 1575-1657). Cornut never crossed the Atlantic, but instead describes specimens propagated in the gardens of Henri IV, tended by Jean Robin (with whom Vallet published the Jardin du Roy tres chrestien Henry IV in 1608) and his son Vespasien. Consequently Cornut himself is not always aware of the source of the plants he describes, and scholars have investigated this to learn about the true explorations of the French, which were sometimes exaggerated or confabulated. Pringle's article explores plausible sources for these specimens (going right back into the early XVIc), including, perhaps, non-French explorers such as John Smith via John Tradescant. In all some thirty-eight species from the New World (apparently seven can only have been from the modern U.S.) are described, as are five (all bulbs) from South Africa. The Historia is a crucial landmark of natural history exploration, as well as, in its latter part, the first recorded flora of the region of Paris. These twenty-four pages -- the Enchiridion botanicum parisense ("Enchiridion" from the Greek meaning "in the hand:" botanical handbook of Paris) -- are described in Hunt as "a pioneer contribution to plant ecology." Together these two parts make the work an essential early essay of botany. The armorial bookplate bears the arms of Count Nikolaus Franz Esterházy-Galántha (1804-1885) and his wife Maria von Plettenberg-Mietingen (1809-1861). The Schloss Nordkirchen designation on the bookplate fixes the time from 1833 (their marriage) to perhaps 1885, if the bookplate were used after the countess's death. Their son (Nikolaus Paul/Miklós Pál) inherited Nordkirchen upon his mother's death, since it belonged to the Plettenberg branch proper. The count and countess refurbished their library around 1850, and so this book might have come into their collection then. Alden-Landis 635/37; Harrisse 59; Hunt 227; JCB3 II:255; Nissen, BBI 406; Pritzel 1894; Sabin 16809.

The First edition, 4to., [16],238,[2] (Privilege), signatures: 54, a-24, A-2G4., with Sixty-Eight full-page copper-engraved full-page illustrations, elaborate woodcut printer's device, historiated initials, head-and tail-pieces. in full contemporary sprinkled calf, real raised bands, gilt borders and decorations in the panels, gilt ruled borders on the boards, early rebacked, with original gilt morocco spine label laid down, inner dentelles, gilt roll decoration on the board edges, marbled endpapers, pages 158 and 220 mis-paginated 358 and 196 respectively, one engraved note in margin of p. 57; two small old ink spots at lower corner of one page, not affecting plate; tears in lower margin of one leaf, with no loss of text; paper lightly toned. The "Enchiridion," which lists plants found in the regions around Paris in the 17th century, is on p. 215-238. From the library of the bibliophile Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), with his shelf-mark on verso of front free endpaper. A fine copy of a rare work. (cgc). Lande 157. T.P.L. 4663. European-Americana 635-37. Harrisse 59. Brown University II. p255. Sabin 16809. JCB II -255. Gagnon II-519. Pritzel 1894. Nissen, BB1- 406. Marjorie F. Warner, "Jean and Vespasien Robin, "Royal Botanists", and North American Plants, 1601-1635," National Horticultural Magazine, V. 35, No. 4, 1956pp. 215-220. Victoria Dickenson, "Drawn from Life," Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1998. Hunt 227: "The first book on the flora of Canada and one of the earliest North American herbals. The author, professor of Medicine at Paris, acquired his knowledge in the Paris gardens of the Morin's, and from the plants brought from Canada by Peirre Morin, in 1633. The engravings are accurate and graceful, translating into lightly shaded line drawings a careful observation of nature. They have been tentatively attributed to the artist Louis Vallet. "John Evelyn, the diarist, when he visited Morin's Garden and museum in 1644, observed that the latter had caused his best flower to be painted in miniature by rare hands, some in oyle". William Blunt. The Art of Botanical Illustration. (London, 1951), jp102. (Lande). "First edition of what is usually considered the first Canadian Flora and, in the" Enchiriclion Botanicum Parisiense", a pioneer contribution to plant ecology". Plant collecting in the 17th century was keenly encouraged to meet the demand for new herbal compounds to treat illnesses. Jean Robin (1550-1629), an apothecary and botanist, maintained a garden on fie Notre-Dame for that purpose, and he travelled to the French colonies and other parts of Europe collecting exotic plant species. Henry H1 appointed him as Botanist to the King in 1586, directing him to lay a garden outside the Louvre, which was completed in 1597. The Jardin du Roi provided plants for the King's physicians as well as for demonstration at the Université de Paris Faculty of Medicine. Robin produced the garden 's first catalogue in 1601, and it listed two plants that had been brought from Canada during the Cartier explorations of 1534-1542 (Warner, 216). Jean Robin's son Vespasien Robin (1579-1662) published a new catalogue of the Jardin du Roi in 1623. As a medical student, Jacques-Philippe Cornut had access to the royal garden, and he was particularly interested in the number of Canadian plants that the catalogue indicated had been brought in during Samuel de Champlain's expeditions, as well as from other explorers who returned from voyages to North America. "Some were undoubtedly sent by Louis Hébert (ca15 75-1 62 7), an apothecary who lived first at Port-Royal, then at Quebec; also by Marc Lescarbot (ca 1570-1642), who had been in charge of the gardens at Port-Royal,' and possibly by others, including Jesuit missionaries." (Dickenson, 99). Cornut never visited the New World; he compiled the "Canadensiu Plantarum "from what he observed in the royal garden, as well as from a commercial nurse y and dried specimens. The illustrations show the plants in the traditional way, including their roots. A new Paris garden, the Jardin Royal des plantes medicinals was laid in 16 4. " Cornut's work shows that nearly all the North American species of the old royal garden had b en preserved and were now in the new one." (Warner 220). Forty of the engravings in Cornet's book appeared a century later in Pierre-Francois-Xavier Charlevoix's" Histoire et description general de la Nouvelle France " (1744) (Dickenson, 102). An important work in the history of plant cultivation in France and North America.

4to. pp. 8 p.l., 238, [2]. 68 full-page botanical etchings in the text. woodcut ornaments, initials, & title vignette. modern morocco (paper lightly browned, marginal dampstain to 2 leaves, ownership entries on title inked out although the date '1670' is clearly visible, it is this owner who appears to be the author of the ms. notes found in the text mostly in the appendix). bookplate of American botanist Edward Sandford Burgess. First Edition of the first Canadian flora and one of the earliest North American herbals. The author, Jacques Philippe Cornut, was professor of medicine at the University of Paris. Although he himself never visited New France, he was able to study specimens which were brought or sent back to France by explorers and Jesuits. Many were provided by Jean and Vespasien Robin who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and from Pierre Morin and his family who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Eighty-six different species are described, thirty native to north-eastern America, a number of them for the first time. Among these is the Guernsey lily, so-named from its introduction into England some fifty years later when specimens were found on the island following the wreck of a ship lost en route from Cape Town with bulbs among the cargo (cfBlunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950). Also illustrated here for the first time are five South African bulbous plants. The sixty-eight finely executed botanical etchings have been attributed to Louis Vallet [1575-1657]. Appended to the main text is a catalogue of plants by Cornut entitled L'Enchiridion botanicum parisiense, apparently the first made of the flora of the environs of Paris. Linnaeus made reference to Cornut's work several times in his Species Plantarum, and Charles Plumier named the genus Cornutia in the family Lamiaceae in his honour. "The fact that the Historia was grounded in medical botany is important to understanding the convention by which Cornut and his artist worked in producing and engraving the illustrations. Cornut's work stands near the end of a very old tradition of herbal literature, and the illustrations reflect a convention established in the mid-sixteenth century. At the same time, Cornut's illustrations were not printed from woodcuts, but from engraved copper plates, and his text reflected not only medical usage, but horticultural observations. The title of Cornut's work also suggests that he has at least attempted to prepare a regional flora, and he has prepared it by working with a living collection, a garden. These two aspects of Cornut's work, herbal on the one hand and regional flora on the other, mark it as transitional, between the Renaissance and the early modern period" (Victoria Dickenson, Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World, page 80-81). European Americana 635/37. Bell C493. Blunt p. 102. Brunet, Suppt., 316-17. Dionne II 99. Gagnon II 519. Harrisse 59. Hunt 227. JCB II p. 255. Lande 157. Leclerc 705. Muller p. 36. Nissen 406. Pritzel 1894. Sabin 16809. TPL 4663. Vlach 183. Wellcome 1612.

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