Parkinson, John

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

Theatrum Botanicum: 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, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, , and strange Plants from all the parts of the wolrd, with sundry Gummes, and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before... London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640
paper, ink, leather

Folio (16 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.; 350 x 230 mm). Engraved title and numerous woodcut illustrations in text, errata leaf at end; some foxing and dampstaining. Nineteenth-century calf, gilt triple fillet; rebacked, corners bumped, rubbed.

Literature

STC 19302; Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Norman 1643; Pritzel 7749

Catalogue Note

First edition.

John Parkinson, apothecary and herbalist, was given the title Botanicus Regius Primarius by Charles I. The Theatrum Botanicum, his second work, describes some 3800 plants that Parkinson divided plants into seventeen 'tribes', based partly on their medicinal qualities and partly on habitat.