





CHABRAEUS'S RICHLY WOODCUT ILLUSTRATED FLORA 1677.
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CHABRAEO, DOMINIC. Stirpium icones et sciagraphia cum omnibus qvae de plantarum natura, natalibus, synonymus, use & virtutibus, scitu necessaria: quibus accessit Scriptirum circa eas consensus, & dissensus.
Genevae, apud Ioannem Anthonium Chouêt, 1677.
Folio (about 335x210 mm.). (8), 1-661 (page 385-386 omitted at pagination.), (1 blank), (28) pp. Extra engraved title, and approximately 3400 woodcut illustrations in text
Worn contemporary brown half leather, spine in six compartments, red edges. Title mended in lower outer corner, pp. 472-473 and 569-570 mended in lower margin. Partly mended worming in outer margin of pp. 453-464. Minor foxing.
Second edition. Chabraeus, Swiss physician and botanist, edited and published Bauhin and Cherler's Historia plantarum universalis 1650-51.
Compare Pritzel 1650*.
Provenance: Olle Wallin (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall.
His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.
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