[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated 18th Century Natural History of Egypt, price reduced
Charles Agvent
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Price reduced to $2300 NET
ALPINUS, Prospero; VESLINGIUS, Joannes. HISTORIAE AEGYPTI NATURALIS PARS
PRIMA. Qua continentur rerum AEgyptiarum libri quatuor. Opus postumum,
nunc primum ... editum. (Pars secunda, sive, De plantis AEgypti liber
auctus et emendatus ... Cum observationibus & notis Joannis Veslingii
... Accedunt ejusdem J. Veslingii paræneses ad rem herbariam & vindiciæ
opobalsami. Lugduni Batavorum: Gerardum Potvliet, 1735. First Edition.
Small quarto (6" x 8") in contemporary vellum. Two volumes bound in one.
Illustrated with 102 copper-engraved plates of animals and plants. RERUM
AEGYPTIARUM [xx], 248, (12) pages. PLANTIS AEGYPTI [viii], 306, [24]
pages. Two plates from part one misbound in the second, plant part, but
it makes sense since these are botanical plates. (Hunt 164, Nissen 20
for Plantis Aegypti). This work combines two of Alpinus’s major
contributions from his exploration to Egypt as physician and avid
naturalist. The first part of this work is published here for the first
time and is often referred to as Rerum AEgyptiarum. Alpinus had received
his training in medicine at Padua and eventually became director of the
Botanical Garden. His meticulous and copious notes and collections that
he made wherever he touched ground during his travels to and in Egypt
resulted in a number of publications. This is the third, which deals
with botany as well as natural history of animals. Although the
botanical information here, the first scientific study of Egyptian
plants, was first published in 1592, the present posthumous work has
been supplemented with notes and observations of Veslingi. (Pritzel,
113) Some mold spotting to the rear board which lightly affects a few of
the rear pages. A little wrinkling to the pages but generally a clean
copy with crisp plates. Near Fine.
Prospero Alpinus (also known as Prosper Alpini, Prospero Alpinio, and
Prosper Alpin) spent three years in Egypt. His DE MEDICINA EGYPTIORUM,
first published in 1591, is said to contain the first account of the
coffee plant published in Europe. The same work introduced the banana
and baobab to Europeans. (#010042) $3,000
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