‎BELON DU MANS, Pierre.‎
‎DE ARBORIBUS CONIFERIS.‎

‎P., Apud Gulielmum Cavellat, 1553. In-4 de (8) ff., 32 ff.; 8 gravures sur bois. Vélin moucheté, dos à nerfs orné, tranches rouges. Reliure de l’époque. 230 x 157 mm. EDITION ORIGINALE DE L’UN DES TOUS PREMIERS TRAITES SUR LES CONIFERES ILLUSTRE DE JOLIES GRAVURES SUR BOIS, œuvre de Pierre Belon, naturaliste et médecin français (Cérans, Sarthe, 1517- Paris 1564). First edition. The first work on coniferous trees and one of the first botanical books to cover a single species. Belon was the first to name all cone-bearing trees 'coniferae' a term which was followed by Gesner. Descriptions are given of the various species, including their locations, and he cites authorities such as Dioscorides. The work contains illustrations of Cedrus major, Picæ arboris figura, Pinus, Icon Pinastri, Laricis figura, Sapini arboris delineatio, Abies foemina, and Cupressus. Pierre Belon (1517-1564) was one of the most orginal naturalist of the Renaissance. "He was one of the first explorer-naturalists and between 1546 and 1550 he undertook long voyages through Greece, Asia, Judaea, Egypt, Arabia and other foreign countries. He looked at the world as an analyst devoted to detail. He succeeded in winning the confidence of the great and was famous during his lifetime" (DSB). The woodcuts are excellent. Ce précieux volume est précédé d’une autre édition originale très rare de Pierre Belon sur les antiquités égyptiennes : « De admirabili operum antiquorum et rerum suspicendarum praestantia liber primus. De medicato funere, seu cadavere condito & lugubri defunctorum eilatione. Liber secundus. De medicamentis nonnullis. servandi cadaveris vim obtinentibus. Liber tertius Ad rever, & illustriss D. Fran. Gard. Turnonium, Parisiis, 1553 », in-4 de 8 ff., 54 ff. et 4 ff. Ce curieux ouvrage traite des différentes cérémonies funéraires des anciens et des modernes, de l'embaumement des corps, de l'usage de la "momie" comme médicament, et de divers autres médicaments ou substances (cèdre, "naphta", nitre.) Il explique l'utilisation du bitume que les anciens Egyptiens utilisaient pour la momification des cadavres. Son action contre la putréfaction a incité les médecins à l'utiliser en thérapeutique. Apothicaire du Cardinal de Tournon, Pierre Belon a voyagé de 1546 à 1550 en Grèce, en Turquie, en Egypte, en Judée et en Arabie. Il en rapporta un grand nombre d'observations sur l'histoire naturelle. EXEMPLAIRE CONSERVE DANS SA RELIURE DE L’EPOQUE. ‎

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