Seminariu[m], sive, Plantarium earum arborum : quæ post hortos conferi solent : quarum nomina, fructus, ite[m] etiam conferendi vocabula apud authores benè recepta hoc libello declarantur ; in pueroru[m] gratiam atque vtilitatem ut post ipsas herbas, etia[m] arbores cognoscere facilè possint.

Accession number

PML 125281.4

Creator

Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.

Published

[Parisiis] : Excudebat Rob. Stephanus Parisiis, M.D.XXXVI [1536]

Credit line

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.

Notes

Attributed to Charles Estienne.
Signatures: A-H⁸.
Includes index.
Printer's device on title page.
Imprint from colophon.

Description

107, [19] p. (the last blank) ; 18 cm (8vo)

Inscriptions/Markings

Unidentified inscriptions inside upper cover and on title page.

Provenance

"Ro[r?]son" inscription inside upper cover. "Joannis [?]" inscription on title page of Sente[n]tiae & proverbia, heavily obscured. "Joannes Ramey" inscription on title page of Sente[n]tiae & proverbia. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).

Binding

Contemporary reversed alum-tawed skin over paperboards; manuscript waste; edges colored red; sewing structure visible.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books