Author:
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Theophrastus |
Short
Title: |
Inquiry into plants. Latin
(1483) |
Title:
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Theophrasti De Historia plantarum liber primus[-decimus] / per Theodorum Gazam in Latinum ex Craeco [i.e. Graeco] sermone versus. [Theophrasti De causis planta[rum] liber I[-VI]]
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Imprint:
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Treviso: Per Bartholomaeum Confalonerium de Salodio, anno Domini 1483 die XX Februari. |
Comments
and Notes: |
Caption titles from leaf A4 verso and leaf a1 recto.
Caption title (leaf A2 recto) reads: Theodori Graeci Thessalonicensis ad Nicolaum Quintum Pont. Max.
"First Latin edition" --Osler.
Edited by Giorgio Merula; translated from the Greek by Theodoros Gazes.
Imprint from colophon (leaf k6 recto).
Leaves printed on both sides; 41 lines per page.
Signatures: A-H8 I-L6 a8 b6 c-h8 i-k6.
The first leaf (A1) is blank.
Guide-letters; spaces for initials; side-notes.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Bound in old quarter-leather over bevelled wooden boards; raised bands; repaired clasps; all edges red. Inked at foot of volume: Theophrasti De arb.
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Smithsonian
Call Number: |
QK41 .T39 L1483 |