71 3437 Tobacco Schoon T 71 3437 Tobacco Schoon T 71 3437 Tobacco Schoon T 71/3437 [Tobacco]. Schoon, T. Waare oeffening en ontleding der planten. The Hague, Meindert Uytwerd, 1692, (54),564,(94)p., engr. title, 16 engr. (fold.) plates, contemp. hroan. - Old owner's entry on title-p.; engr. title w. tear in the platemark; four plates loose but fine; untrimmed copy, all lvs. (sl.) frayed and/ or trifle darkened along edges. = Rare first and only edition of a treatise on tobacco. Arents II, 414: "The original intention of the author was to refute Van Peima [Tabacologica] chapter by chapter, but he decided to write as a naturalist and treat particularly of the tobacco plant. All the elements or factors which affect plants are explained or discussed: the movements of celestial bodies, climate, parthenogenesis, etc. An account of the origin of tobacco, its nomenclature, species and varieties, physical characteristics, cultivation, preparation, curing, chemical composition (of tobacco and other plants), comparative medicinal values, etc., etc. are all fully given in separate chapters". Not in Nissen, BBI nor Pritzel. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLXIV.
71 3437 Tobacco Schoon T 71 3437 Tobacco Schoon T 71 3437 Tobacco Schoon T 71/3437 [Tobacco]. Schoon, T. Waare oeffening en ontleding der planten. The Hague, Meindert Uytwerd, 1692, (54),564,(94)p., engr. title, 16 engr. (fold.) plates, contemp. hroan. - Old owner's entry on title-p.; engr. title w. tear in the platemark; four plates loose but fine; untrimmed copy, all lvs. (sl.) frayed and/ or trifle darkened along edges. = Rare first and only edition of a treatise on tobacco. Arents II, 414: "The original intention of the author was to refute Van Peima [Tabacologica] chapter by chapter, but he decided to write as a naturalist and treat particularly of the tobacco plant. All the elements or factors which affect plants are explained or discussed: the movements of celestial bodies, climate, parthenogenesis, etc. An account of the origin of tobacco, its nomenclature, species and varieties, physical characteristics, cultivation, preparation, curing, chemical composition (of tobacco and other plants), comparative medicinal values, etc., etc. are all fully given in separate chapters". Not in Nissen, BBI nor Pritzel. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CLXIV.
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