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56 unnumbered pages, 543 pages, 21 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (12mo)

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

1 print : etching ; platemark 17 x 11.4 cm

A plant (Alyssum vesicaria): fruiting plant, leaves and fruit. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].

An asparagus plant (Asparagus aphyllus): plant with floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Medlar (Mespilus germanica): fruiting stem, leaf and fruit segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Codex botanicus. In quo plantarum analisis, virtutes, phrasesque traduntur: in French and Latin.
Contents:
(1) Introduction à la connoissance des plantes (pp. 1-9).
(2) Abrégé de tout le système de botanique selon M. Tournefort (pp. 10-26).
(3) Plantarum phrases in Horto Regio Parisiensi provenientium (pp. 27-244), pp. 245-253 blank).
(4) Explication physique et mécanique de la manière d'agir les remèdes (pp. 254-339).
(5) Vertus des plantes usuelles selon l'ordre quelles ont été démontrées au Jardin du Roy à Paris. Par M. Jussieu (pp. 340-470).
(6) [Anon.] Quaestiones medicae (de venenis) (6 ll.).
The date 14 December 1717 occurs on the third leaf from the end of the last section.
This MS. by an anonymous compiler contains abbreviated versions of Tournefort's works, and of the work by Bernard de Jussieu, first published in 1725: the last work is by a different hand and probably written somewhat later.

Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708); Chirac, Pierre (1650-1732); and others

1 volume 1 l. + 471 pp. + 30 ll. (last 13 bl.). 4to. 201/2 × 15 cm. Original calf-gilt binding.

Codex botanicus

A plant (Lunaria perennis), related to honesty: flowering plant with leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image 29x 42.2 cm

Ephesus, Turkey: a bird's eye view of the city; the temple of Diana; the statue of Diana. Line engraving, ca. 1732, after J.P. de Tournefort.

3 volumes : t.p.s to volumes i and iii in red & black, engr. illustrations ; (folio)

Historia plantarum species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas et descriptas complectens. In qua agitur primò de plantis in genere, earúmque partibus, accidentibus & differentiis; deinde genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad species usque infirmas, notis suis certis & characteristicis definita, methodo naturæ vestigiis insistente disponuntur ... / Auctore, Joanne Raio.

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Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

A plant (Alyssum vesicaria): fruiting plant, leaves and fruit. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].

An asparagus plant (Asparagus aphyllus): plant with floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Medlar (Mespilus germanica): fruiting stem, leaf and fruit segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Codex botanicus

A plant (Lunaria perennis), related to honesty: flowering plant with leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Ephesus, Turkey: a bird's eye view of the city; the temple of Diana; the statue of Diana. Line engraving, ca. 1732, after J.P. de Tournefort.

A plant (Echium orientale): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

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Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

A plant (Alyssum vesicaria): fruiting plant, leaves and fruit. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].

An asparagus plant (Asparagus aphyllus): plant with floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Medlar (Mespilus germanica): fruiting stem, leaf and fruit segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Codex botanicus

A plant (Lunaria perennis), related to honesty: flowering plant with leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

Ephesus, Turkey: a bird's eye view of the city; the temple of Diana; the statue of Diana. Line engraving, ca. 1732, after J.P. de Tournefort.

A plant (Echium orientale): flowering stem and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.

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