Botany.- Reneaulme (Paul de) Specimen Historiæ Plantarum, first edition, Paris, Adrien Beys, 1611; bound with Jacque August de Thou's poems, as often. 

Botany.- Reneaulme (Paul de) Specimen Historiæ Plantarum, 25 full-page engraved illustrations, lacking a4 blank and final blank, Adrien Beys, 1611 bound with (as issued) de Thou (Jacques August) Crambe. Viola. Lilium. Phlogis. Terpsinoe, 1611, together 2 works in 1 vol. first editions, some spotting and toning to paper throughout, 18th-century half vellum, title in manuscript to spine, lower cover damaged, [Hunt 192; Nissen BBI 1621; Stafleu & Cowan 9073], 4to, Paris.

*** "Most references do not include the twenty-four leaves containing de Thou's poems at the end... it would seem to have been published as an integral part of the book" (Hunt 192)

Blunt enthuses about the illustrations thus: "exquisitely sensitive and extremely personal in treatment. They are assuredly the work, not only of a great lover of nature, but a great master of the etcher's craft."

Provenance: New York Horticultural Society bequest of Kenneth K. Mackenzie October 1934 (bookplate and a few other library markings).