AUTHOR: Bauhin, Kaspar (1560-1624) TITLE: Theatri botanici Caspari Bavhini... sive Index in Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinii et botanicorvm qui a seculo scripserunt opera: plantarvm circiter sex millivm ab ipsis exhibitarvm nomina cvm earundem synonymiis & differentiis methodice secundum earum & genera & species proponens. Opvs XL. annorvm hactenus non editum summopere expeditum & ad auctores intelligendos plurimum faciens... IMPRINT: Basileae Helvet.: sumptibus et typis Ludovici Regis, 1623. COLLATION: 12 p.l., 522, [22] p., 1 l.; 24 cm. NOTES: Nomina authorum quorum opera usi sumus: p.l. 6-9. “First edition. Bauhin was the first to establish a scientific system of nomenclature. ‘His Pinax describes six thousand species; it is the gebinning of a modern “natural”classification based on general morphology’ — Printing and the Mind of Man 121.” — Raymond Sutton catalogue bulletin no. 74 KEYWORDS: 1. Botany. LOCATION: QK41.B34 1623