PLUMIER, Charles (1646-1704). Description des Plantes de l'Amerique. Avec leurs Figures... Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1693. 2 o (421 x 265 mm). 108 engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf and boards (some wear to spine and edges). Provenance : John Amory Lowell (bookplate); purchased from Inman, 1967. FIRST EDITION, second issue with the corrected date on the title page. Plumier's first botanical publication. "Le Pere Plumier, a monk of the order of St. Francesco di Paula, was an important botanical traveller. Tournefort and he became friends and they herborized together throughout the Midi. After that, Plumier's travels included the Antilles and several long voyages to other islands in the West Indies and to America, where he discovered, drew, and described hundreds of new plants, many of which are shown in his own books, though much of his work had to remain unpublished until Boerhaave and Jean Burmann were able to edit part of his papers, and published them as the Plantarum Americanarum Fascisculi X in 1755-1760" (Hunt 389). Nissen BBI 1544; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8066.
PLUMIER, Charles (1646-1704). Description des Plantes de l'Amerique. Avec leurs Figures... Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1693. 2 o (421 x 265 mm). 108 engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf and boards (some wear to spine and edges). Provenance : John Amory Lowell (bookplate); purchased from Inman, 1967. FIRST EDITION, second issue with the corrected date on the title page. Plumier's first botanical publication. "Le Pere Plumier, a monk of the order of St. Francesco di Paula, was an important botanical traveller. Tournefort and he became friends and they herborized together throughout the Midi. After that, Plumier's travels included the Antilles and several long voyages to other islands in the West Indies and to America, where he discovered, drew, and described hundreds of new plants, many of which are shown in his own books, though much of his work had to remain unpublished until Boerhaave and Jean Burmann were able to edit part of his papers, and published them as the Plantarum Americanarum Fascisculi X in 1755-1760" (Hunt 389). Nissen BBI 1544; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8066.
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