Sebastiani Vaillant ... Botanicon Parisiense :
operis majoris prodituri prodromus.
Description
- Language(s)
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Latin
- Published
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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, The Netherlands] : Apud Petrum vander Aa, Bibliopolam & Typographum Academiae, ut & Urbis, MDCCXXIII [1723]
- Note
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Head- and-tail pieces; initials; title page has engraved profile bust of Socrates.
Title page in red and black.
"Catalogus librorum, qui novissime apud Petrum vander Aa": p. 131- [132].
"Rei Herbariae studiosis H. Boerhaave S. [praefatio]": p. [3]-[12].
Text is separately published prospectus to the author's Botanicon Parisiense, 1727.
"Sébastien Vaillant is honored in France as the man who first understood the nature of sex in plants. He was a student of [Joseph Pitton de] Tournefort's [1656-1708] and considerably influenced Linnaeus [Carl von Linné]. He spent many years on the preparation of his Botanicon Parisiense, in which he developed his study of sexual characteristics [in plants], but he died before the work could be published. A prodromus was issued the next year (1723) through Peter Vander Aa .. with preface by Herman Boerhaave, and the complete work with plates in 1727. Tournefort honored his contempoary in the genus Vaillantia [sic], one of the Rubiaceae, and the name was perpetuated by Linnaeus."--Catalogue of the botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, v. 2, pt. 2, p. 103-104.
"First edition of this local floral of the region of Paris [Latin edition; without plates], the result of more than 30 years work, posthumously published by [Herman] Boerhaave at the request of the author. "Brilliant French botanist, demonstrator and director at the Jardin Royal in Paris [Jardin du roi]" ([Gerrit Arie] Lindeboom), Vaillant was also an insatiable collector of specimens who led his students on botanical excursions to Brittany and Normandy. Linnaeus admired him and named the genus Valantia for him. "Vaillant established, on the basis of irrefutable evidence ... the existence of plant sexuality" (DSB [= Dictionary of Scientific Biography])."--Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc. datasheet.
- Physical Description
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[12], 131, [1] pages ;
16 cm
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