Belon (Pierre) Les Remonstrances sur le default du Labour & culture des plantes, & de la cognoissance d'icelles, collation: ã8 è8 ì8 A-K8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking a8 (with author's portrait), water-stained (mostly marginal), new pastedowns, recased in contemporary limp vellum, ownership inscriptions to covers, stained, 8vo (170 x 107mm.), Paris, Gilles Corozzet, 1558. ⁂ The exceedingly rare first edition of Belon's last work. Here he gives a list of exotic species of trees that would be usefully introduced into France, as well as advocating that the medical profession of Paris open an establishment to grow exotic plants. Provenance: 'Bousquet' (17th century inscription to front free endpaper); 'Baldit, 1701' (inscription to title). Literature: Not in Adams; Pritzel 609.
Belon (Pierre) Les Remonstrances sur le default du Labour & culture des plantes, & de la cognoissance d'icelles, collation: ã8 è8 ì8 A-K8, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking a8 (with author's portrait), water-stained (mostly marginal), new pastedowns, recased in contemporary limp vellum, ownership inscriptions to covers, stained, 8vo (170 x 107mm.), Paris, Gilles Corozzet, 1558. ⁂ The exceedingly rare first edition of Belon's last work. Here he gives a list of exotic species of trees that would be usefully introduced into France, as well as advocating that the medical profession of Paris open an establishment to grow exotic plants. Provenance: 'Bousquet' (17th century inscription to front free endpaper); 'Baldit, 1701' (inscription to title). Literature: Not in Adams; Pritzel 609.
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