INDEX ALTER PLANATARUM QUAE IN HORTO ACADEMICO LUGDUNO-BATAVO ALUNTUR

Pars Secunda

Volume 2 only, 270, (xviii index) pages, contemporary marbled paper covered boards - spine faded, 24 engraved plates - 2 folding, title page printed in red and black and with a engraved vignette, edges uncut, corners bumped, contents crisp, a good copy.

Hunt, volume II, part I, page liv, '...a monumental work of very different character, provided with generic descriptions, correlated polynomial specific names, detailed synonymy and engraved plates.'

Gunn (Mary) & Codd L.E.): Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa, pages 41 - 43, discusses the 24 plates of proteas reproduced in Index Alter Plantarum all of which are present is Pars Secunda (Part Two) offered here.

Herman Boerhaave (December 31, 1668 - September 23, 1738) was a Dutch humanist, philosopher, and physician, regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the concept of the modern teaching hospital. Originally prepared by his father for the ministry, Boerhaave found himself fascinated by science and medicine. He made a methodical study of both, reading and cataloging all the available knowledge on those subjects. His hard work won him a position at the University of Leyden, in 1701, as a medical lecturer; he remained there until his retirement in 1729, as a professor of botany, chemistry, and medicine, rector and governor.
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