[Rarebooks] FS: Camerarius:THE FIRST BOTANICAL EMBLEM BOOK, 1605

[charles agvent]

  [EMBLEM BOOK] CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM. SYMBOLORUM & EMBLEMATUM EX RE 
HERBARIA DESUMTORUM CENTURIA UNA COLLECTA BOUND WITH THREE OTHERS. 
Nuremberg: [Typis Voegelinianis] 1590 [1605]. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 
7-3/4") bound in full recent antique calf with four raised bands and 
gilt lettering. Bound with Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex 
animalibus.... Nuremberg, 1595. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & 
emblematum ex volitatibus et insectis.... Nuremberg, 1596. And: 
Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus.... 
[Nuremberg?], 1604. Edited by the renowned German physician and 
naturalist J. Camerarius's son, Ludwig Camerarius. First Collected 
Edition of the four volumes, this copy lacking the general title page 
and five pages of preliminary matter but retaining the blanks at the 
end of the third and fourth parts. 102 ff; 103 ff. [1]; [2] 102 ff. 
[2]; [4] 100 ff. [1]. Each volume contains an original engraved title 
page and 100 charming circular copper engravings making a total of 400 
copper engravings of plants, animals, birds, and fish by Hans 
Sibmacher with accompanying descriptive text. First published 
separately in 1590, the CENTURIA UNA was THE FIRST BOTANICAL EMBLEM 
BOOK and one of the first books to contain illustrations of plants on 
intaglio plates. Hunt 181; Landwehr German 166; Nissen 312. Minor 
dampstaining at the upper gutter extending toward the center of the 
page in some instances but usually quite light and never touching any 
emblem. Near Fine in attractive binding of this lovely book.  $8500

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