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P (Stack)Du Pinet, Antoine, 16th cent.
L'histoire des plantes, traduicte de latin en francois : auec leurs pourtraicts, noms, qualitez & lieux ou elles croissent ; a laquelle sont adjoustees celles des simples aromatiques, animaux a quatre pieds, oiseaux, poissons, serpens & autres bestes venimeuses, ensemble les distillations : auec deux tables, l'vne des mots latins, l'autre des francois
/ par Geofroy Linocier. Paris : Chez Charles Mace, au mont S. Hilaire, a l'enseigne de la Pyramide, 1584. L'histoire des plantes is a translation of Du Pinet's Historia plantarum (first published Lyon : G. Cotier, 1561). Of the 6 additional treatises, each with special t.p., the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th have statement of responsibility: Recueillie de Gesnerus & autres bons & approuuez autheurs; the 1st (L'histoire des plantes aromatiques) is largely based on the works of Carolus Clusius, Garcia de Orta and Nicolas Monardes; the 6th (Entier discours) is drawn from the principal source of Historia plantarum, P.A. Mattioli's Commentarii in libros sex Pedaci Dioscordis, and Jean Liebault's translation of Gesner's Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, book 2 (Quatre livres des secrets de medecine). The 2nd-6th were reissued by Guillaume Mace, 1619; cf. Duveen, D.I. Bib. alchemica et chemica, p. 248. Spine title: "Gesnerus Histoire naturelle". Imperfect: lacks t.p.; several leaves mutilated. Inscribed "Histoire naturelle recueillie de Gesnerus Paris 1582". Gunther Loan Collection.
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1584