(BOTANICAL) Parkinson John Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terres

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(BOTANICAL.) Parkinson, John. Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Wood-engraved title, portrait, and 109 full-page engraved botanical illustrations. Folio, modern 1/2 calf; G5-H3 dampstained in upper margins, Dd2 with 2-inch tear from upper margin into text, Mm lacking upper right corner with partial loss to pagination; early marginalia dated 1707 on page 383. London, 1629

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first edition of one of the most important early British botanicals. Parkinson describes over 1000 plants, all found in his vast garden. Nissen, Botany 1489.