Robin Geoffroy (3 results)
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Condition: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 360 | Sprache: Französisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First. Linocier: Paris: Guillaume Macé, (1619-)1620. Robin: Paris: Guilllaume [sic] Macé, 1620. First edition. Sextodecimo in 8s (16mo; 4 5/16" x 2 ¾", 110mm x 71mm). [Full collation available.] With woodcuts on nearly every page. Bound in later stabbed vellum with yapp edges. All edges of the te…xt-block glazed umber. The text, as usual for books of this format, shaved throughout (affecting head-lines, side-notes and quire signatures). Very mildly and evenly tanned. Quire Z mis-bound. Fill to the lower fore-corner of C4, the lower margins of Ggg4-5 and the upper fore-corner of Mmm6, not affecting the text. Bb2 repaired at the lower edge, and an transverse tear to Yy1 with an old repair. Geoffroy Linocier (d. 1620) was born at Tournon-sur-Rhône in the Ardèche sometime in the mid-XVIc. He trained in medicine in Paris and later in botany -- which is to say, medical botany or pharmacology; the Jardin des Plantes (or its antecedents) had been established in the 1540's. Linocier is not just the translator of the work, published originally as Historia plantarum by Antoine Du Pinet in 1561, but also responsible for its augmentation in 1584 to include a great many plants from the New World and from Asia. As issued by Linocier, the work is in seven parts, each with their own fly-title (all dated 1619): plants in general (drawing heavily on Gesner and Matthioli; the majority of the work, ending at p. 648), "plantes aromatiques" from the East and West Indies, quadrupeds, birds, fish, serpents (including rats, mice and insects) and finally distillation. Far surpassing the ambition of its title, the work is a pocket-sized survey of the natural world, with an eye to usefulness -- from spices such as nutmeg (p. 667) to mummies (i.e., mummified humans), the source of the pigment "mummy brown" -- as well as to transformation in the form of distillation, used for alcohol as well as flower waters (rosewater, etc.), which were crucial elements of the early modern pharmacopeia. The 1619/1620 edition of the work was sometimes bound with, as here, the Histoire des plantes, nouuellement trouuées en l'Isle Virgine (i.e., Virginia rather than the Virgin Islands). The author, Jean Robin (1550-1629), was arguably the most famous botanist of his time, and he established one of the most beautiful gardens in Paris between the Louvre and St. Germain l'Auxerrois. There he naturalized many plants, some of them raised from seeds gathered in Virginia which he received in 1601. It is believed that the oldest tree in Paris, a Robinia pseudoacacia (Black Locust), was planted by him shortly thereafter in the Square René Viviani-Montebello, where it still stands today. The work contains six distinctly North American plants: "Maracocq Indica sive flos passionis"(passion flower; the text notes that the plant also produces a fruit, i.e., the passionfruit), "Narcissus Virginianus flore albo Rubicante" (the white daffodil of Virginia), "Opuntia sine sicus Indiqua Minor" (the Opuntia ficus-indica cactus; the accompanying text notes that it is from Spanish America, and hosts the cochineal beetle), "Narcissus Indicus rubro flore" (possibly the Sprekelia or Jacobean lily, also known as the Aztec lily, native to Mexico), "Lilium Canadance flore luteo punctato" (possibly the Turk's cap lily, Lilium superbum), and "Canna Indica flore rubro" (canna lily). Robin: John Carter Brown II, p.149; Pritzel 7672; Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) 1378; Sabin 72042 (correcting the entry for 32014; "of extreme rarity").
