BELON, Pierre (1517-1564). De arboribus coniferus . Paris: Egidius Corrozet, 1553.
BELON, Pierre (1517-1564). De arboribus coniferus . Paris: Egidius Corrozet, 1553. First edition of one of the earliest botanical works devoted to a single genus of plants . There are three issues of this work, the others bearing the imprint of Prevost or Cavellat. 4to (208 x 146 mm). 8 woodcuts in text. (Repaired tears crossing gutter and text on B4-C1 and F1, occasional ink underlining by an early hand.) 19th-century vellum (a few pale stains). Cleveland Collections 73 (Corrozet issue); Wellcome I,758 (Prevost issue). Belon "enriched the biological sciences by new observations and contributed greatly to the progress of the natural sciences in the sixteenth century. His learning was not derived solely from books. He was one of the first explorer-naturalists; and between 1546 and 1550 he undertook long voyages though Greece, Asia, Judaea, Egypt, Arabia, and other foreign countries" ( DSB ). He made numerous important observations and discoveries of the flora and fauna of these Eastern Mediterranean regions and introduced a number of exotic plants from those areas into cultivation in Europe.
BELON, Pierre (1517-1564). De arboribus coniferus . Paris: Egidius Corrozet, 1553.
BELON, Pierre (1517-1564). De arboribus coniferus . Paris: Egidius Corrozet, 1553. First edition of one of the earliest botanical works devoted to a single genus of plants . There are three issues of this work, the others bearing the imprint of Prevost or Cavellat. 4to (208 x 146 mm). 8 woodcuts in text. (Repaired tears crossing gutter and text on B4-C1 and F1, occasional ink underlining by an early hand.) 19th-century vellum (a few pale stains). Cleveland Collections 73 (Corrozet issue); Wellcome I,758 (Prevost issue). Belon "enriched the biological sciences by new observations and contributed greatly to the progress of the natural sciences in the sixteenth century. His learning was not derived solely from books. He was one of the first explorer-naturalists; and between 1546 and 1550 he undertook long voyages though Greece, Asia, Judaea, Egypt, Arabia, and other foreign countries" ( DSB ). He made numerous important observations and discoveries of the flora and fauna of these Eastern Mediterranean regions and introduced a number of exotic plants from those areas into cultivation in Europe.
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