1640 BEST English HERBAL 1ed Theatrum Botanicum John Parkinson 2500+ Engravings

1640 BEST English HERBAL 1^ed Theatrum Botanicum John Parkinson 2500+ Engravings

John Parkinson is considered to be one of the most important 17^th-century botanists and was a foundational English herbalist. His discoveries and herbal treatises propelled him to Royal Botanist of King Charles I, and while his royal position certainly contributed to his lasting fame, his most prestigious contribution was his book ‘Theatrum Botanicum’.

This monumental work is considered to be the most complete and thorough English herbal, much in part to the more than 2,500 illustrated figures throughout. first published in 1640, this book contained descriptions of more than 3800 different plants many of which had never been included in a botanical anthology before.

Item number: #24716

Price: $4,950

PARKINSON, John

Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours

London: printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [6], 1755, [11]
    • Added, engraved title page
    • 2500+ in-text and full-page woodcuts throughout!
    • Many pagination errors throughout, but entirely expected of this first edition
  • Provenance: Handwritten – Amos Eaton, 1819
    • Amos Eaton (1776–1842) was an American botanist, geologist, and educator who is considered the founder of the modern scientific prospectus in education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal arts tradition of classics, theology, lecture, and recitation. His teaching laboratory for botany in the 1820s was the first of its kind in the country, and Eaton’s popular lectures and writings inspired numerous thinkers, in particular women, whom he encouraged to attend his public talks on experimental philosophy. In 1817, he published his Manual of Botany for the Northern States, the first comprehensive flora of the area; it ultimately went through eight editions.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~13.75in X 9.25in X 3.75in (35cm x 23cm x 9.5cm)
  • Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at upwards of $10,000

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