Connubia florum latino carmine demonstrata, auctore D. de La Croix, M. D. Notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, Baronettus

Macenroe, D. [ = D. de la Croix ]

Published by S. Hazard, Bath, 1791

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[Latin text, with some Greek; a few of Clayton's notes are in English.]. Engraved frontispiece of the Agnus Scythicus, pp 138, very clean internally, the hinge at the frontispiece crackig but no weakness, bound in a [ater unlettered cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed and chipped at the edges but otherwise sound. RARE. {The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz), is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone, both the plant and sheep died. Underlying the legend is the cotton plant, which was unknown in Northern Europe before the Norman conquest of Sicily. The Hunt Library Catalogue - Number 474 - devotes four pages to the earlier printings of this work - "One of the most curious little books in the Collection, or even in the demesne of bibliography".}. [This copy has an article bound in at the rear entitled Botany; it has 127 pages, is probably late-Victorian, and I have not traced its source.].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connubia florum latino carmine demonstrata, auctore D. de La Croix, M. D. Notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, Baronettus
• Publisher: S. Hazard, Bath
• Publication Date: 1791
• Binding: Cloth-backed boards
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Garden History
  • History of Science
  • Botany