GESSNER, Conrad. - Lot 1067

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GESSNER, Conrad. - Lot 1067
GESSNER, Conrad. Catalogus Plantarum Latinè, Graecè, Germanicè, & Gallicè...Namenbüch aller Erdegewächsen, Latinisch, Griechisch, Teütsch, und frantzösisch. Registry of all plants in four languages, Latin, Greek, Aleman, & Francoys. Unà cum vulgaribus Pharmacopolarum nominibus...Adjectae sunt etiam Herbarum Nomenclaturae variarum gentium, Dioscoridi ascriptae, secundum literarum ordinem expositae. Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1542. In-4 (206 x 142 mm) 4 ff.n.ch., 162 ff.ch., 29 ff. white; set in a cold-stamped calf binding, with a crucifixion plate on the top cover, spine ribbed (contemporary binding). First edition of the second publication on botany by the famous scientist Conrad Gessner (1516-1565). It is the first alphabetically arranged catalog of plant names in four languages, the first of its kind, and an indication of the growing interest in botany beyond purely philological investigations into the writings of the classics. "An alphabetically arranged catalog of plant names in four languages, the first of its kind, and an indication of the growing interest in botany beyond purely philological investigations into the writings of the classics. The Greek names are based on the works of Dioscorides. This early work is already characteristic of Gessner's life-long endeavour to arrange scientific topics in alphabetical or systematic order; it also show his proficiency in languages, and his interest in their comparative treatment" (Wellisch 8.1). Extensively restored binding with spine and endpapers; 28 ff. blank pages bound at the end for notes. Pritzel, 3298; VD-16, G-1706.
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