Iac. Cornuti doctoris medici Parisiensis Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia :
cui adiectum est ad calcem Enchiridion botanicum Parisiense, continens indicem plantarum, quae in pagis, siluis, pratis, & montosis iuxta Parisios locis nascuntur.

Description

Main Author

Cornut, Jacques Philippe, 1606-1651.

Related Names

Cornut, Jacques Philippe, 1606-1651.
Le Moine, Simon, printer.

Language(s)

French

Published

Parisiis : Venundantur apud Simonem Le Moyne, viâ Iacobeâ., M. DC. XXXV. [1635]

Subjects

Plants.
Botany.
Botany > Botany / France > Botany / France / Paris.
Botany > Botany / Canada.
Botany > Botany / Pre-Linnean works.
Botany > Botany / France > Botany / France / Paris > Botany / France / Paris / Pre-Linnean works.
Botany > Botany / Canada > Botany / Canada / Pre-Linnean works.
Plants > Plants / Pictorial works.
France > France / Paris.
Canada.
Pictorial works.
Early works.

Note

Errata statement on last page.
Errors in pagination: 158 misnumbered 358, 220 misnumbered 196.
Title vignette; head and tail-pieces; initials.
Enchiridium botanicum Parisiense has caption title at head of page 215.
Illustrations: 68 copperplate engravings by Louis Vallet; see Nissen.
The first book on the flora of Canada and one of the earliest North American herbals.--Lande.
Professor H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, says that, counting plants actually from Canada and those attributed to "Virginia", about thirty Northeast-American species are first descirbed and illustrated in this volume (Hunt botanical cat.).
Below imprint: Cum privilegio Regis.
Signatures: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-2G⁴.

Physical Description

[16], 238, [2] pages : 68 illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)

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