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Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel

Jean Bodaeus van Stapel naquit à Amsterdam. Les progrès qu'il avoit faits dans ses études de médecine, le firent regarder comme un homme capable de grandes choses pour l'avancement de son art. Il y avoit déjà travaillé, lorsqu'il mourut en 1636, dans un âge peu avancé. Egbert, son parent, célèbre médecin d'Amstedam, publia en 1644 l'histoire des plantes de Théophraste, que Bodaeus avoit eu dessein de faire imprimer, & à laquelle il avoit mis la dernière main. Cet ouvrage a paru sous ce titre:

Joannes Bodaeus à Stapel in Theophrasti Historiam plantarum, Amstelodami, 1644, in-folio.

(M. Goulin.)

Theophrastus Eresius. De Historia Plantarum Libri Decem, Graece & Latine. In quibus textum Graecum variis lectionibus, emendationibus, hiulcorum supplementis:... item rariorum plantarum iconibus illustravit Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel, medicus amstelodamensis, accesserunt Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri, in eosdem libros animadversiones: et Roberti Constantini, annotationes cum indice locupletissimo, Amstelodami, 1644.

Engraved title page and numerous woodcuts in the text. Thick folio, pp. (20), 1187, (88), contemporary gilt- decorated vellum (spine perished; vellum soiled; endpapers soiled; light staining to title; a small ink signature on title; occasional minor spotting to text), Henricum Laurentium, Amsterdam, 1644. First edition edited by Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel. "This is one of the best and most thoughtfully prepared of all the editions of Theophrastos. E.L. Greene, in Landmarks of Botanical History, Washington, D.C., 1909, bases his articles on Theophrastos on this edition." - Hunt 240. H.H. Bartlett in Fifty-five Rare Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1949, says of it: "It is interesting not only because of the brilliance of the editing, but, curiously enough, to the American botanist as well, for involving in the discussion certain species from Virginia, other parts of the New World and Asia." Provenance: Sir Massie Blomfield with his armorial bookplate. – USD 4,950.00 (da www.ilab.org)

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