HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES PLANTES, CONTENANT XVIII. LIVRES ÉGALEMENT DEPARTIS EN DEUX TOMES.
by DALECHAMPS, Jacques
Lyon, Heirs of Guillaume Rouille ; 1615.
2 volumes
Massive folios: 9.5 by 15"
[4]-960-[34], [120]-758-[28] pp.
- First French edition translated by Jean des Moulins and following the first edition in Latin published in 1586-1587 by J. Dalechamps (1513-1588), French botanist and physician.
Numerous illustrations in-text.
Containing a compilation of all the botanical knowledge of its time.
Describing more than 2731 plants and much of the unique botany of the region around Lyon.
Titles in red & black. Woodcut devices on titles.
- Ref. Nissen (BBI) 447. - Stafleu & Cowan 1297. - Pritzel 2035. - BnF.
- Provenance: "Jean Claude Lavaivre de Rigny" (manuscript entry on flyleaf). - Manuscript entries on titles
Modern half vellum, dyed paper on covers, flat spines, endpapers renewed.
Some wear, some marginal dampstaining
Text in French

Daléchamps was a French physician, botanist, and humanist who studied under Rondelet at Montpellier.
Although criticized for its inaccuracies by the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin, Daléchamps' work is "regarded as one of the most complete botanical compilations of its time and is supposed to be the first to describe much of the unique botany of the region around Lyons" (Johnston/Cleveland Collections 129).

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