FREE SHIPPING WORLWIDE
WE ACCEPT
Your selection
VAILLANT, Botanicon parisiense, 1727
VAILLANT, Sébastien.
Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.
Leiden & Amsterdam, Verbeek & Lakeman, 1727.
Folio (400x257 mm), (36)-xii-(4)-205-(14) pages, portraict, large folding map and 33 plates with explanation text. binding : Contemporary full sheep, gilt spine in six compartments. Caps and corners worn. Loss of leather. Some light waterstains.
First illustrated edition and first edition in french (firs ed. in latin in 1723).
33 plates by J. Wandelaar, each with explanation text.
It is to Sébastien Vaillant that we must attribute the decisive role of having identified the sexual organs of plants and having recognized their importance in taxonomy. It is thanks to Vaillant's work that Linnaeus proposed his classification of plants.
references: Stafleu [VI, 15748].
Price : 1500 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
© Eric Zink, Antiquarian Bookseller