1680 HERBAL Medicine Pharmacology Bauhin Plants Botany Remedies Apothecary Opium

1680 HERBAL Medicine Pharmacology Bauhin Plants Botany Remedies Apothecary Opium

Caspar Bauhin was a 16^th-century Swiss botanist who is best known for classifying thousands of plants in way that rivaled the more commonly accepted Linnaeus binomial nomenclature. First published in 1596, ‘Phytopinax’ would become the basis for many 17^th-century works on botany, including ‘History of the Plants of Europe’.

This book features a myriad of botanical illustrations accompanied by a physical description as well as the virtues and uses with much of the emphasis being on each plant’s medicinal properties.

Item number: #14615

Price: $599

BAUHIN, Caspar

Histoire des plantes de l’Europe, et des plus usitées qui viennent d’Asie, d’Afrique & d’Amérique. Tome I

Lyon : Chez Jean-Bapt. De Ville, 1680. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages;
  • [46], 442
  • Hundreds of illustrations throughout
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~6.75in X 3.5in (17cm x 9cm)

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