Plantarum, seu, stirpium historia = [Plants, or, an account of their lineage] (together with) Nova stirpium adversaria = [New plant lineage]
Description: First edition of Lobel's Stirpium Observationes and the second, enlarged issue of Nova Stirpium Adversaria. Henrey observes of the first edition of Lobel's Nova stirpium adversaria that, 'the chief importance of this herbal lies in its system of classification which is better than that used by any contemporary botanist. The arrangement is based mainly on difference of leaf character, the monocotyledons being placed together at the beginning of the work, thereby foreshadowing their separation from the dicotyledons' (I, page 28). On these grounds, it may be considered 'one of the milestones of modern botany ... L'Obel was one of the great pre-Linnaean botanists' (DSB VIII, p. 435). The work was first published in London by Thomas Purfoot in 1570-1571; Plantin bought 800 sets of sheets from Purfoot and substituted a new title-page and 36 supplementary leaves, comprising the appendix, Rondelet's Formulae aliquot remediorum, and the indices. Amongst the 5 additional illustrations pasted in by Plantin is 'The first published illustration of Nicotiana Tabacum' (Hunt). The resulting work was then issued with a companion volume, Pena and Lobel's Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia.--Christies website, September 2019.
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: First edition of Lobel's Stirpium Observationes and the second, enlarged issue of Nova Stirpium Adversaria. Henrey observes of the first edition of Lobel's Nova stirpium…