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The Naming of Names. The search for order in the world of plants.
London, Bloomsbury, 2005, in-4°, 471 pp, index, bibliography, with 158 coloured ills., publisher's red cloth with dustwrapper. History of nomenclature in botany. Mint copy.
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The Naming of Names - The Search for Order in the World of Plants (Histoire de la botanique et du nom des plantes, de la classification)
Bloomsbury Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2005 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under editor's illustrated cream dust-jacket, with colour flowers In-4 1 vol. - 478 pages
159 plates, most of them in colours, few in black and white, full page and in text (complete) 1st edition, 2005 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, vi, Texte, 472 pages - Introduction - In the beginning - All men by nature desire to know - The Alexandrian Library - Pliny the Plagirarist - The medicine men - Juliana's book - The Arab influence - Out of the black hole - The image makers - Theophrastus reborn - Brunfels's book - The Irascible Fuchs - In Italy - The first botanic garden - The long-nose nit-picker - Weaving the web - Protestants prevail - Gesner's masterpiece - New pastures - Plantin's team - The last of the herbals - English achievements - The American connection - The beginning of the end - Epilogue, chronology, cast list, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, list of illustrations, index - NB : Une histoire de la botanique et du nom des plantes, abondamment illustrée d'une iconographie très riche et intéressante, avec de nombreux fac-similés en couleurs de planches anciennes de botanique ou d'ouvrages sur les plantes et leur classification, dressant un vaste panorama de l'histoire de cette discipline. Cela constitue également une documentation originale sur les grands livres de l'histoire de la botanique et les grands auteurs the spine of the dust-jacket had lightly lost its colors, spine, the dust-jacket remains clean, inside is fine, no markings, it's still a nice copy
