Rome: Alvise Zanetti, 1596. First edition, the Honeyman copy, of this rare and important early work on metallurgy, for which Georges Cuvier called Cesalpino the creator of the doctrines of mineralogy. Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603) is best known for his botanical discoveries, “grouping a wealth of careful observations under broad categories..... More
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Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1583. The very rare first edition of “the first true textbook of botany’ (DSB): the introduction of Cesalpino’s classification system, which anticipated Linnaeus’ system of binomial nomenclature. “Whereas other sixteenth-century botanists were content simply to compile vast haphazard catalogues of plants, Cesalpino was the first to devise..... More
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![Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque. [Bound with:] PATRIZI, Francesco. Discussionum...](/pictures/thumb/5127.jpg?v=1604575716)
Venice; Venice: Giunta; Dominico de’ Franceschi, 1571. First edition, and a fine copy in a contemporary binding, of Cesalpino’s very rare work which coined the phrase “circulation of the blood” (circulatio sanguinis, f. 111v) and provided the theoretical basis for Harvey’s experimental and quantitative treatment in De motu cordis (1628)..... More
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