Hardback, contemporary calf, rebacked, with gilt title to morocco spine label, corners restored. 32cm x 20cm. This copy has 106 of 109 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations to text. 1st edition 1629. Lacking woodcut title, facsimile supplied, lacking 8 further text leaves, including 3 botanical illustrations. Early ownership inscription of 'J.t. Smyth' to A1, some spotting and old damp-staining, heaviest at front and rear. Some damp-mottling and marginal damp-fraying to final leaves, some marginal paper loss to final leaf of text and index, repairs with loss to final 3 leaves, closed tear to 3A1 & 2Z6. Scarce. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (r28)
Title: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of All Sorts of Pleasant Flowers Which Our English Ayre Will Permitt to be Noursed Up: With a Kitchen Garden of all Lmanner of Herbes, Rootes, & Fruites, for Meate or Sause Used with us, and an Orchard...
Edition: 1st Edition
Location Published: London, Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young: 1629
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Categories: Botany, 17th Century
Seller ID: R28GLTBN1705