Paris: Adrien Turnebe. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1552. First Edition. Vellum. 6 blanks 24; 4 25 3 6 blanks pp. A small quarto 8" x 5". Full vellum with very neatly handwritten title in brown ink on the spine. Covers have normal minor wear. The paper used for theend papers and blanks is a close match to the text paper but with slightly wider chain lines. The first book is in Greek; the second de igne Lib. Eiusdem in Eundem Adnotatiunculae with the date of 1553 and is the Latin translation. Except for a very slight bit of toning and very occasional foxing the paper is clean strong and unmarked. Inside front cover has the bookplate of Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 Dean of Christ Church curator of the Bodleian and delegate of the Oxford University Press. The first separate edition of Theophrastus's treatise on fire beautifully printed by Turnebe a specialist in Greek textual criticism and Director of the Royal Press. Theophrastus studied under Plato and was Aristotle's successor at the Peripatetic school. He was interested in philosophy especially in how it related to the natural world and his works on botany are famous. Here he looks at fire and tackles the idea of it as a "simple body" or first principle and seems to come to the conclusion -- contra Aristotle -- that fire cannot be an "element" because it relies on other principles for its existence. An important landmark of classical scholarship and printing in the first separate edition -- in both Greek and Latin -- nicely printed and in very good condition with lovely provenance. OCLC 645152760 ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Adrien Turnebe hardcover
Trajecti ad Rhenum - Utrecht: Apud Joannem Evelt 1737 Book. Good. Hardcover. 40 221 3 pages. Text in Greek on the left hand pages and Latin on the right. Title page has some small tears to the edges. Some staining and spotting to pages throughout. In old full vellum - which is darkened and soiled. The free end papers are not attached to the boards. More modern paper label to the inner front board with an ink shelf mark on it. Ink not to the front free end paper. Ink name to the title page - J.H. Mordtmann 1871. Apud Joannem Evelt hardcover
1529. Vænit Parisiis apud Egidium Gourmoncium Wechel 1529 kl.-8° 16 14 2 343 22 3 pp.; 18 354 24 pp. alter Pergamenteinband; teilweise im oberen Rand zarter Wasserrand; trotz der Mängel ein feines Exemplar. Theophrasti de historia et causis plantarum libri quindecim. Theodoro Gaza interprete. Ejusdem Tabulas duas capita librorum complectentes : quarum unam libris de historia alteram de causis plantarum unàcum vocabulis quibusdam græcorum & latinorum nominum præfixas invenies lector. Theodoro Gaza interprete. & Second and last part: "Theophrasti de causis plantarum libri VI. Theodoro Gaza interprete. Luteciæ ex officina Christiani Wechel. 1529" Very Rare second single edition first published in Tarvisii 1483 and together with Aristotel. Hist. anim. Ventia 1504. "Copies of the complete 1529 edition seem to be quite rare as we have found only three others listed above." Hunt catalogue 1:34-35 entry 26. "This is the earliest work of scientific botany a subject not addressed in any of the writings of Aristotle." Theophrastus "system of botanical classification analogous to the zoological system in Aristotle's Historia animalium maintained its authority until the advent of the microscope in the mid 17th century." Garrison & Morton Theophrastus of Eresos c.370-287 bce "one of Aristotle's greatest students built upon Diodes' work and founded the field of biology known as botany. In his works 'On the Natural History of Plants' and 'On the Origins of Plants' Theophrastus identified and classified over 500 species of plants and explained their medicinal properties. He succeeded Aristotle at the Lyceum and taught there for nearly 35 years. He has often been called "the father of botany" and perhaps deserves the title "the father of pharmacognosy" as well. Remarkably Theophrastus pioneered the concept of drug tolerance observing that the power of a drug taken over a long period diminishes in people who become accustomed to taking them." Bob Zebroski A Brief History of Pharmacy: Humanity's Search for Wellness 2016 Uebersetzung des Theodorus Gaza c.1398-c.1475 "kritisch und wichtig" und hier zum ersten Mal "mit brauchbarem Index der griechischen und lateinischen Namen." Choulant pp.58-59 Garrison & Morton No.81.1 1783 1st. Ed.1483 unknown
Amstelodami: apud Henricum Laurentium 1644. 1644. Folio in 6s. 20 418 417-694 495-529 730-994 997-1187 1 88 pp. Numerous mispaginations noted. With the magnificent engraved title and 600-700 decorative botanical woodcuts. Text in 2 columns index not paginated parallel texts in Greek and Latin. Bound recently in full antique-style speckled calf richly gilt-tooled in a masterfully elegant binding; some neat paper mends to gutter front & back leaves some leaves variously stained at edges in the rear pages 950-988 browned. New endleaves. The splendid Bodaeus van Stapel edition of Theophrastus' seminal work Enquiry into Plants beautifully illustrated with hundreds of fine woodcuts of all the known plants. This is the first edition by edited by Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel 1602-1636 who died prior to the book being issued. This edition of Bodaeus van Stapel is the most important and influential edition of Theophrastus. The book is the first comprehensive systematization all known plants and as such important in the history of plant science. Plants of the new world America Asia and Africa are included. / The editor Bodaeus van Stapel is known for this particular work the Latin version of Theophrastus' Historia plantarum the text completed before his death in 1636 and published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1644 by his father. / Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote of this edition: "This edition displays great care and research; the notes are numerous and learned and all botanical information to be gleaned from Aristotle Pliny Dioscorides and other ancient writers seems to be embodied in this work. The conjectures of Scaliger Constantine and Salmasius and also incorporated; and although Haller has censured Bodaeus for occasionally wandering from his subject and introducing a few errors the present this edition of 1644 is nevertheless an edition well deserving of the curious botanist's attention: for it has collected into one body the opinions of the old writers on the subject of plants. It contains some wood-cuts of the rarer species which are much better uncoloured than coloured." - Thomas Frognall Dibdin An Introduction to The Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics . . . London 1808 vol. II p. 285. / This edition of Theophrastis is "one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastis" - Hunt. / "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing but curiously enough to the American botanist as well for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia other parts of the New World and Asia. The illustrations of these plants have been largely overlooked in botanical history because of their incidental presence in a work which might not be expected to contain anything of the sort. Some were merely borrowed from l'Ecluse or de Lobel but others seem original in this work." - Harley Harris Bartlett Fifty-five Rare Books for the botanical library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt. Clements Library 1949. / SEE: Theophrastus. Enquiry into Plants. With an English translation by Arthur Hort. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1916. / McDiarmid J. B. 'Theophrastus.' In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie. New York 1976. Vol XIII pp. 328-334. / Morton Alan G. History of Botanical Science. London and New York 1981. / Negbi Moshe. 'The scientific cradle of botany - Theophrastus and other pioneers.' In: Israel Journal of Plant Sciences vol 58 pp. 309-18. 2010. / Sharples Robert W. Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for this Life Writings Thought and Influence. Commentary Vol. 5. Sources on Botany. Leiden: Brill 1995. apud Henricum Laurentium, 1644. unknown
Lugduni Batavorum 1632. Binding slightly rubbed with loose front board. Otherwise clean and tight. 71 1 98 237 2pp. Small octavo 9 x 4 cm. Greek and Latin texts of Theophrastus's Characters with the very seldom seen commentary of Johann Angelius Werdenhagen 1581-1652. Full plain calf. The binding and endpapers are about early nineteenth-century. unknown
Glasguae : Glasguae : In Aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae Typographi 1758. Book measures 16.5x10.5.cm. 132pp Text in Latin and Greek. Bound in original publishers full tree calf with gilt dentelles to board edges marble endpapers. At some time the book has been rebacked retaining part of the original spine. Calf rubbed some scuff wear. Generally a good clean solid binding. Internally pages clean throughout. A nice clean solid copy. . Full Calf. Near Very Good. Small 8vo. Glasguae : In Aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae Typographi Hardcover
Glasguae: exudebat Robertus Foulis 1748. 12mo pp. 52 34; text in Greek followed by the Latin; contemporary calf double gilt rules on covers enclosing a blind-decorated border gilt turn-ins spine decorated in blind and gilt marbled endpapers speckled edges; joints rubbed very good. Gaskell 120. exudebat Robertus Foulis unknown
Glasguæ: in ædibus academicis excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus 1743. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. ii 53 52pp. 1 A4-G4 - G4 blank A4-F4 G2. Greek text followed by the Latin translation. Contemporary red morocco spine gilt. Bound with: 24 page Greek manuscript. This manuscript follows the divisional sections of the Greek text and acts as an explanatory or transilational adjunct to it. This is the first book in which Foulis described himself as University Printer to which office he was elected on 31 March 1743. <br/> <br/> Glasguæ: in ædibus academicis excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus, 1743. hardcover
Max Hueber. 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Last 3 pages and rear wrap have lower corner creased. Spine a little sunned. Minor shelfwear. Light creasing to first few pages corner.; Das Wort Der Antike. Band VII; 377 pages . Max Hueber paperback
Parisiis: Editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot 1877. Paperback. Prof. Stannard's tidy ownership information with just a few markings thin wraps torn and poorly repaired signatures holding together but cracking at the spine a good reading copy. From the library of Prof. Jerry Stannard. Large 8vo. wraps. Parisiis: Editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot paperback
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