THEOPHRASTUS. De historia plantarum libri decem. Graece & latine. In quibus textum graecum variis lectionibus, emendationibus, hiulcorum supplementis. Latinam Gaza versionem nova interpretatione ad margines… Amstelodami, apud Henricum Laurentium, 1644 Cm. 37, pp. (20) 1187 (89). Beautiful fully figured frontispiece and hundreds of woodcuts in the text depicting varieties of plants and flowers. Solid tight coeval binding in rigid parchment, nerve spine with handwritten titles. Some natural burnishing on some papers, but very genuine, marginal and in excellent condition. Estimated and famous edition that presents the Latin and Greek text of this classic considered more important from a scientific-botanical point of view than a philological one. EXTREMELY RARE Cfr. Nissen, Pritzel, e Choulant.