ID 887824
Lot 51 | L'histoire des plants
Valeur estimée
$ 8 000 – 12 000
A charming and fascinating compilation, including the what is likely the first description in print of three botanical species native to Virginia; with over 900 fine miniature woodcuts taken from many sources, its several sections illustrating plants, quadrupeds, fish, serpents, distillation, exotic products from the East Indies and the Americas, and much else. This work has also been responsible for much bibliographical confusion concerning one of its components, the Jean Robin Histoire des plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l’Isle Virgine. This 16-page treatise was often extracted from the volume and sold as an independent Americanum; it is rare in a contemporary binding.
The first and largest part of Linocier’s text (pp 15-648) is a translation of Antoine Du Pinet’s Historia plantarum, compiled from Pietro Andrea Mattioli and others, first published in Lyons in 1561. The second treatise, L’histoire des plantes aromatiques, qui croissent en l’Inde tant occidentale qu' orientale (pp [649]-704), is largely based on the works of Charles de L'Ecluse, Garcia de Orta and Nicolás Monardes. The Robin tract, discussed above, is separately paginated (pp 16). The next four (pp 1-239), devoted to quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and serpents, are all drawn from "Gesnerus & autres bons & approuvez Autheurs." The last treatise, Entier discours et maniere de distiller les eaux de toutes sortes de plantes (p. [927]-943) is drawn from Mattioli’s commentaries on Dioscorides and Jean Liébault’s translation of Euonymus (pseud., i. e. Gesner) De remediis secretis liber secundus, issued in Paris in 1579 under title Quatre livres des secrets de medecine, et de la philosophie chimique.
Dupinet’s work was first published in 1584 by Macé, but without the Robin text. In 1619 Macé brought out the above edition, with an eighth tract added, the above-named work attributed to "Jean Robin, Arboriste du Roy" and dedicated to "Thomas Morand" (see below). The title phrase ‘’Isle Virgine" refers to the Virginia colony, not the Virgin Islands. This work has often been catalogued on its own, and also sold on its own. Given the imprecision of its 17th-century nomenclature and the crudity of the woodcuts, the botanical contributions of the Robin text are difficult to establish. However, there is reason to credit the tract's claims to illustrate species native to North America, and the Virginia colony, in particular. For instance, the first illustrated specimen, the "Maracocq Indica Flos Passionis," is likely the Passiflora incarnata, native to the southeastern United States and Appalachia, and not to be confused with several species of South American passion flower; the second, "Narcissus Virginianus," might be Zephyranthes atamasco, likewise native to the southeastern United States, including Virginia. Finally, the "Lilium canadance flore luteo punctato," is the Lilium canadense, native to Eastern North America, including Appalachia. The Robin text's depictions of these three "Virginian" species, and the Passiflora incarnata in particular, may well be their first appearance in print. The remainder of the illustrated plants are Middle Eastern, European or Central- or South American in origin. Though the identifications proposed here are only tentative, Marjorie Warner's assertion that the tract "does not contain a single Virginian species" can be dismissed. (See Warner, Marjorie F. “Jean and Vespasien Robin, ‘Royal Botanists,’ and North American Plants, 1601-1635.” National Horticultural Magazine 35, no. 4 (1956): 216). Jean Robin was director of the botanical gardens of the Louvre, where he cultivated a number of exotic plants brought back from Africa, the Americas, and the East Indies. He also apparently had his own private garden. Robin provided the plants that were depicted in Vallet’s Le Jardin du Roy très Chrestien Henry IV (1608) and its successor of 1623. Robin’s portrait appears alongside that of Vallet in both works. It is not clear if Robin is the author of the "Virginia" tract, or only the source of the plants described therein.
Interestingly, throughout the entire work are woodcut borders, which feature festoons of plants and exotic animals (including a prancing llama) remain the same, printed from the original block, as are the woodcuts themselves. The 900-some woodcuts comprise 636 in the first part, and are reduced copies of the smaller set of blocks after Giorgio Liberali used by Valgrisi in his Mattioli editions from 1554 on. The 51 woodcuts in the second part derive from l’Ecluse, d’Orta, and Monardes. The 14 Robin cuts in the third part may be original. The remaining 218 woodcuts in the last five parts derive from Mattioli, Gesner, and possibly other sources. Alden notes that "the first section describes numerous American plants ... The Histoire des animaux à quatre pieds describes the ‘Su’, said to live in giant-inhabited Patagonia, & also the armadillo. The Histoire des oiseaux mentions the parrots of Hispaniola, and describes the turkey." There are two issues of the first title-page, one dated 1619 and the other, as here, 1620; both are otherwise identical, from the same standing type. All the other tracts are dated 1619. Alden 620/97; Goldsmith BL 1484; Rosenwald 839; Sabin 72042 (correcting 32024 which was an entry for Robin only).
Eight parts in one volume, 16mo (112 x 74 mm). Six woodcut title borders from the same block, with several hundred woodcuts of plants, animals, and distilling apparatus. Contemporary French calf, spine with gilt ornaments in compartments (spine very worn at ends, corners showing). Provenance: "Choquet D. Med" (inscription to flyleaf) – deleted inscription on front flyleaf dated 1762 – deleted inscription to title page.
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