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  • HERNÁNDEZ, FRANCISCO (1514-1587).
    Mar. 15, 2007

    HERNÁNDEZ, FRANCISCO (1514-1587).

    Est: £6,000 - £8,000

    NOVA PLANTARUM, ANIMALIUM ET MINERALIUM MEXICANORUM HISTORIA [EDITED BY NARDO ANTONIO RECCHI]. ROME: V. MASCARDI, 1651 folio (330 x 218mm.), [16], 916, [2 (unsigned additional leaf of text)], 917-950, [2 (Amico Lectori and Index Tabularum Phytosophicarum)], [22 (indices, vocabulary, errata, etc.)]; 90, 5, [1 (errata)] pp., title printed in red and black, illustration: engraved allegorical vignette on title, engraved additional title (Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus), approximately 800 woodcuts of plants, animals, birds, insects etc. in text, engraved music (four staves) in text (p.717), binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands gilt, without gathering a2 (2 page index; see footnote), I6 torn (without loss), a few leaves with wormholes, some leaves with light spotting or browning, spine ends slightly torn and with a little worming LITERATURE Nissen BBI 861 and ZBI 1908a; Palau 113538; cf. Hunt 247; Sabin 31516 NOTE first published latin edition. "a monument of industry and erudition, the more remarkable as being the first on the subject, and even today it still holds its place as a book of the highest authority" (Hunt). Hernández, physician to Philip II of Spain, was sent in 1570 to Mexico to study the flora and fauna and to prepare an inventory of the natural products of New Spain. His researches remained unpublished at his death in 1587 and his successor as royal physician, Nardo Antonio Recchi, was entrusted to prepare for the press a suitable abridgement of the mass of materials left by Hernández. Recchi died before he was able to complete the work, but his efforts led to the unillustrated publication, in Mexico City in 1615, of the first book on plants published in the Americas. The present Latin translation, prepared in Rome by the Accademia dei Lincei and richly illustrated with fine botanical woodcuts throughout, was printed in 1628 but very few copies had been distributed when its patron, Prince Federico Cesi, died, leaving the project bankrupt. Publication was revived due to the efforts of Francesco Stelluti and the original sheets were reissued in 1648, 1649, and 1651. Though only a small part of all that he had written, it was here at last that Hernández's work received the recognition that it deserved. Bibliographically, the present volume belongs to the first (published) edition, third issue; however, it retains the three original dedications to Cardinal Barberini which were cancelled in some copies. This copy contains the unsigned and unpaginated leaf bound between pages 916 and 917 (text headed "Append. ad pag. 917" and on the verso, "Append. ad pag. 918") and is without a two leaf index (gathering a2), which is occasionally found at the end of part 1, but was clearly intended to be replaced by the more complete index that is present. Also, page 110 is correctly numbered, with other errors in pagination being uncorrected.

    Sotheby's
  • HERNANDEZ, Francisco (1514-1587). Rerum Medicarum Novase
    Oct. 14, 2003

    HERNANDEZ, Francisco (1514-1587). Rerum Medicarum Novase

    Est: $20,000 - $30,000

    HERNANDEZ, Francisco (1514-1587). Rerum Medicarum Novase Hispaniae Thesaurus; Historiae Animalium et Mineralium Novae Hispaniae Liber Unicus. Ed. by Nardo Antinio de Recchi, with notes by Giovanni Terrentio, Johannes Faber, Fabio Colonna and Federico Cesi. Rome: V. Mascardi, 1651. 2 o (346 x 238 mm). Engraved title with small map of Mexico, approximately 800 woodcut illustrations in text, engraved music at p.717, and TWO UNRECORDED ENGRAVED PLATES. (Lacking the letterpress title as often, lacking a-b 2 at front and D 2 index and errata leaves, but with additional leaves as detailed below, some very intermittent pale spotting and light marginal spotting, marginal repaired tear crissing text on Qq2.) ORIGINAL ITALIAN LIMP-PAPER BOARDS, UNCUT (tear along spine). Provenance : sold Sotheby's, 24 November 1969, lot 23. FIRST EDITION, third issue. "All was ready for publication in 1628 when Prince Federico [Cesi, the author's nephew] himself died, leaving the project without funds, and it is thought that only a few copies of the 'edition' ever reached the world at large The only copy of the 1628 'edition' that we have been able to find in America is in the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Dorothy Schullian's description confirms our belief that the 1649 (1651) edition is made up of the earlier sheets, with only the addition of gathering + 4 which contains the new title page and other new material noted above in our collation. The 1649 title page is copied from that having the 1628 date" (Hunt). While often described as the first published edition, this is the first edition, bearing the third issue 1651 title-page and inserted gatherings. In the present copy, the dedication to Barberinus dated 1625 is cancelled and a preface addressed "Amice Lector" is substituted. It also contains Colonna's dedication to Barberinus, but not the cancel-dedication to F. Cesi. Stellutus's dedication appears in original as well as cancelled state, i.e. to Barberinus and Roderico de Mendoza respectively (both leaves signed Gggg2). The index by Stellutus that is part of the preliminaries is here bound at the end of the first part. Also present are two engraved plates, facing pages 213 and 301 in part I, which are clearly integral to the book and are apparently unrecorded. They are not included in the collations of the B.M. catalogue, Nissen, Pritzel, Hunt, John Carter Brown or Sabin. No copies containing these plates have been recorded at auction. BMC 17th-century Italian, p.433; Hunt 247; Nissen BBI 861 and ZBI 1908a; Palau 113538; Pritzel 4000; Sabin 31516. A VERY FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS.

    Christie's
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