Botany.- North America.- [Robin (Jean)] Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine...Jardin de Monsieur Arboriste du Roy, 14 woodcut illustrations, [John Carter Brown II, p.149; Pritzel 7672; Sabin 72042 (correcting the entry for 32024)], 1620 with Linocier (Geoffroy) L'Histoire des Plantes, traduicte de Latin en François: avec leurs pourtraicts, second edition, numerous woodcut illustrations, 5 printed woodcut titles, 1619-20 together 8 parts in 1, trimmed sometimes affecting headline or side-notes, later vellum, yapp edges, Paris, Guillaume Macé, 16mo.

⁂ Robin's tract is the first book dedicated to botany to include North American plants, and is of 'extreme rarity' (Sabin). This work refers to the Virginia colony rather than the Virgin Islands, as the first illustrated specimen, the 'Maracocq Indica Flos Passionis', is likely to be the Passiflora incarnata, native to south-eastern United States and Appalachia. The second illustration, 'Narcissus Virginianus', is likely Zephyranthes atamasco, also native to the south-eastern United States, including Virginia. The 'Lilium canadance flore...' is the Lilium canandense, native to Eastern North America, including Appalachia. It is likely that these are the first appearances of these 'Virginian' species in print. The other plants included in Robin's tract are from Europe, and Asia.

There has often been bibliographical confusion concerning Robin's botanical treatise, as it was often extracted from Linocier's 'L'Histoire des Plantes' and sold as a separate treatise.

In this work as a whole, the first part is Linocier's translation of Antoine Du Pinet's Historia plantarum, the second treatise 'L'Histoire des plantes aromatiques...' is predominately based on the works of Charles de L'Ecluse, Garcia de Orta and Nicolás Monardes. Robin's tract, discussed above, before the next four tracts focus on quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and serpents enhanced by their various woodcut illustrations. The final treatise is 'Entier discours et manière...'. This work was first published without Robin's tract. Jean Robin (1550-1629) was a French botanist and royal gardener of Henry III, Henry IV and Louis XIII; from 1590 at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris.